Funny how a thoughtless word can hurt and influence us so much when we are starting out. I saw a pattern in a book and went to my lace teacher with it. I said that it would be perfect as a present for my mother as a piece for her dolls house. It was pattern 106b from Pamela Nottingham's bucking lace book.
My teacher said with a well remembered sneer, "oh you can't do that for ages yet as you have to master torchon before you move into bucks." I asked about honiton and she could nearly get the words out; "honiton? Not for years yet." Let's see, I made my first piece of honiton 6 weeks later and that bucks piece? That would be the one that took me 2 hours to make last week. As a teacher it is your duty to guide and encourage every student to make the best of their abilities and ensure that they enjoy and continue in their chosen craft. To tell someone that they can't do something now or ever or to disparage what they have done is unforgivable. What is worse, such teachers take money off people to teach them. If, as Adele did, someone makes a piece of lace that has good tension, looks like it should do and has taken effort to make, then the right response should be 'that is beautiful'. Kind Regards Liz Baker > On 20 Oct 2013, at 17:35, Adele Shaak <ash...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > I remember as a very new lacemaker, being haughtily told that a piece of > Honiton I had made was actually something else (Whithof? Brussels?) because > of the way I had done a join. I had taken the pattern from the "Devonia" > book, which didn't have the best instructions, and I'd had to figure out that > bit as best I could. I had no idea that my little efforts had 'ruined' the > lace. I thought it looked nice. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
