On 3/4/11, Lorelei Halley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everybody >..... I suppose that by the time you get to Binche, you are > supposed to be so smart that you can think upside down and backwards at the > drop of a hat. >........
Hi Lorelei and everyone You have nailed something I've been mulling over ever since I met the lovely Flanders and Binche laces... that the people who first worked them could think and see in all directions. They would be what we call 'illiterate' - they didn't read! At least they didn't read words on a printed page from left to right. They used the ability to watch and memorize, to learn the laces. It was the paradigm shift in Western culture that, besides enlightening us, conditioned us to want to 'see' left to right, as for the printed page. We are conditioned by schooling and our culture - and as Jeri mentioned, the written instruction is a blessing for some. How good it is to have a choice. The Binche diagram is a freedom. I wouldn't be able to follow how to make this lace just by watching, and I canNOT imagine written instructions for Binche - gaah! (enjoy your next evening Lorelei!) -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
