On 31/12/2010 10:26, laura forrester wrote: [snip]
John Beswick of Torchon House makes beautiful fan sticks using the lace (or scan thereof) as a pattern. He always asks if you want your fan to fold or remain open for display, and will work out the fold pattern from your lace scan. He also incorporates the lace design into the sticks where possible.
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Thank you very much for writing, Laura. I'm most interested to see that the fold pattern is not necessarily part of the original design, but can be worked out later. I suppose that it must be partly to do with how many sticks would look best with the pattern, or perhaps how many would be needed to support the lace properly.
But is that "where possible" the give-away? Are fan patterns created sometimes with the intention that they should fold and sometimes that they should not? And, if a pattern is designed so that it could be folded, is it part of the idea that it should look good with folds, or that it should fold completely and be used? Of course, I imagine that all these are possible! So how would you know, when choosing, which one you were going to get? Is there some way to tell, if the pattern does not come with a description?
With best wishes, Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
