So experience has a good bit to do with it. Makes absolute sense, and that's what I saw. But those lacemakers who made a living out of making lace, the faster they went, the more money they made, the better they ate. Was it just experience for them? Or are there tricks to it, besides figuring out the most efficient way to proceed, so you're not moving bobbins needlessly to get where you need to be.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US, where it's not only 80F, 24C, it's also muggy -----Original Message----- >From: Malvary Cole <[email protected]> >Sent: Jun 21, 2011 11:03 AM >To: [email protected], [email protected] >Subject: Re: [lace] Lace yardage -speed > >Hi Lynn - not really speed. I find I get into the swing of things and >obviously some patterns go a lot quicker than others. I do a fair bit of >Idrija which is quite quick to finish as there are so few pairs -just the >sewings slow you down, but they are easy because they are just into a loop. > >Interesting that when I was at the Lace Guild Convention, I did a course on >Flanders grounds which I hadn't done before. Others in the class had >obviously done some, so while I was still working on sample 1 they were off >to sample 2 and 3. There was some discussion about 'no diagram' for sample >5, but as I was still on sample 2 at that point, I didn't take much notice. >After I got home and arrived at sample 5 - whoops, no diagram. So I looked >at the progression of the samples to that point, decided what was missing >and created a sample 5. Don't know if it is right or not, but have asked >Jacquie to have a word with the teacher when she sees her a little later in >the summer at a course she is taking. In the meantime, I've pressed on and >have now done sample 11 (out of 13), but have to wait until my boxes of >stuff I'm shipping from the UK arrive as I put many reels of thread inside a >tube with some papers for ease of transport. > >When Jacquie and I were in Spain for the Lace Festival in Camariñas in >April, we were both absolutely amazed at the speed of the lacemakers there. >They use a sort of bolster pillow (tall and round - top end rests on the >table or wall or whatever is handy, bottom end rests in their lap) and the >bobbins all hang down at the sides. They work palms up and are sooooo fast. >We were watching someone do leaves and were trying to get her to go slowly >so we could see how she was working, but she couldn't do it slowly, well not >slowly enough for us. > >But, as I say to my students when someone says that she hasn't done as much >as someone else - it isn't a race. > >Malvary > - 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
