Hi Michelle,
Anne- Marie's books have the translation pages and the English version is
in the pack. All her patterns and diagrams are drawn out using the
continental colour coding so you know whether you should be doing
cloth-stitch, half-stitch, double-stitch etc and they are very good. The
earlier patterns indicate the number of twists you need to put on your
thread but as you advance through the books they are left out as it is
assumed you know by then ! hmmm, not so sure :o)
I am so lucky to be able to go out to Brugge once a year in Oct (only 4
weeks away now !) with one of the lace groups I belong to and the way
Anne-Marie and Marie-Ann teaches is for you to learn Flanders first, which
is what I have been doing. Back here in England I have been fortunate to
get onto Patricia Bury's courses and am learning Binche - she teaches the
continental laces and she is excellent and her classes so much fun.
I never thought I would ever get to learn Binche and am totally hooked,
albeit that I am still very much a beginner but the way Tricia teaches is
to work through practice pieces, learning more and more techniques on the
way. Personally, I know I could not have picked it up quite so easily on
my own but there are many of you out there who are obviously so much more
experienced and would not have a problem.
Good luck, it sounds as if you will not have a problem coming to grips
with this type of lace and it is such fun and interesting to do.
Best wishes
Jill
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[lace] RE: Binche-beginning
Gidday Clay and all,
Syllabus Binche from Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet (there are
three in the series). However, this is best used if you
have a teacher at hand who can help you with each step of
Is this in English though? I am also interested in starting to learn
Binche, and have done quite a bit of Flanders, Point de Paris and
Valenciennes as this was thought to be good preparation for Binche. I
have
been looking at books available on the Sewfairy site, but I am hopeless to
know exactly which book would be the best for someone with no access to
teachers at the moment (ie me in Suriname!). I am pretty good at learning
from books, as long as it is in English where necessary.
Another option is the Binche Study Guide prepared by Michael
Giusiana, which gives the student a specific list of samples
which should be worked as one progresses through the levels.
Giusiana's samples are drawn from a comprehensive list of
Now this sounds great - how do we get hold of it? My DH wants to buy me
something paper for our 1st wedding anniversary next month, so he
actually
thought of a lace book all by himself. Mind you I'm desperate to get the
Tina book at the moment too but as its also my birthday on our anniversary
I
figure I deserve 2 books instead of one (G). I've ordered him a new
8-shaft
weaving book for his paper present so he won't complain.
Michelle
an Aussie living in hot Suriname
Ian Chelle Long
+597 352505
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