Margo wrote:
It may not have been made by 3 different lacemakers.
When I did the bucks hankie on the front of Traditional Bobbin
Lace, each time I came to the corner I did them in a different way.
Maybe two match. By the time I came to the next corner I had forgotten
how I did the last. :-)
On 12 Jun 2008, at 03:38, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I remember seeing a slide show by christine Springett, and she
showed a cap
and lappets worked in 3 pieces - by 3 different lacemakers. There
was a
difficult flower (It was a floral beds piece) and each lacemaker
had worked
out how to do i
" 'historically correct' "
But didn't they usually just have to work things out for themselves? They
did not have books to tell them how to do techniques - and most of the
lacemakers could not read, anyway!
I know Lace schools taught things a certain way - but the school in the next
village mi
