I will raise my hand about music-making and needlework. I play Bach on a string instrument, and to my mind, the patterns that make sense when sight-reading musical counterpoint make the same intuitive rhythms in my mind (internal ear? mind's eye?) as the growing symmetries and dissonances of lace when looked at up close.
I *also* have brain-based math learning disabilities, along with some other neural challenges. Somehow reading non-syllabic writing systems are easy for me, but numeracy demands some other cognitive effort. To be precise, then, I would say that the part of music-making, sight reading counterpoint, being able to make sense of knitting and lace notation, has to do with comfort with discrete intervals in relation to one another -- nothing to do with numeracy as such. Hmmm I wonder if I agree with myself. Does numeracy -- that is, being able to manipulate numbers -- include being able to slice intervals into smaller bits? I'm thinking of how musicians think about note-value, that is, the duration of each note, that is, a quarter note is one beat in 4/4 time, a dotted quarter note is one and a half note, etc. If you are following me so far, what in lace making would correspond to being able to execute note values in music-making? On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 9:18 AM, David C Collyer <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day Nancy, > > It would be interesting to do a survey of the bobbin-lacemaking members of > IOLI about area of education, highest degree obtained and when, career > field, types of bobbin lace specialized in, maybe things like primarily > self-taught or not, others?, and compare the stats from that to stats > > Along with that I think it would be interesting to include such things as > ability to read music, play an instrument, sing in a choir etc. I just have > a feeling that many of us do. > David in Ballarat, AUS > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
