[> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:51:10 +0300
From: pene piip <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [lace] Are you new to lace or was it passed on?
My mother taught me to knit, crochet, embroider & sew, & bought the
Golden Hand Series, but the bit about bobbin lace in there didn't
register. My mother was teaching porcelain painting at the Bathurst
College's Winter School, & when I started working I attended a Spinning
class. That's when I saw bobbin lace for the first time & it just
"spoke" to me. I had to wait a whole year before my first lessons with
Jenny Fisher. Then Jenny designed an edging & sleeve insertion for my
wedding dress which I made myself. The next year Myra Frappell of Orange
(who died last year on the day I was flying to Sydney) taught me how to
tat. My maternal grandmother was a tatter, but my mother didn't learn
until 1996 when Noelene taught her, & now she's been learning bobbin
lace for a few years now.
After settling in Canberra I showed my cousin, Jenny Rees, the basic
stitches & introduced her to the Canberra lacemakers. Last year she
discovered that another cousin was learning bobbin lace as well.
My father's interest in genealogy has traced our family origins back to
the Devon area in England & the French Huguenots, so for us lacemaking
is also in the genes.
BTW I downloaded a few photos to Webshots of a rock that my youngest son
found recently. I think it is limestone, but not quite sure, but
limestone is Estonia's national stone/rock. It has lacey holes through it.
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003-date/1
Pene
(an Aussie lacemaker living in Tartu, Estonia)
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Marion [email protected]
Subject: RE: [lace] Are you new to lace or was it passed on?
Pene Your Dad said the Lacy stone could be limestone formed from Coral.
There is a a cousin of Pene's family in Devon still making Honiton lace.
Marion in Oz.
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