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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:41 AM
Subject: [lace] Re: Wear More Lace!
On Jan 10, 2005, at 19:16, Catherine Hill wrote:
No, we shouldn't be giving modern lace to the young
and beautiful in our circles of acquaintance. We
should be teaching them
Devon said:
How about having the young and beautiful design the lace that they would
feel comfortable wearing to trendy events and the old and patient can make
it.
That's probably how the new traditions start: Young thinking with the
quality and experience of the older artists.
Diane Z
Lubec
initial interest, well I can hope can't I.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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From: Tamara P. Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lace Arachne lace@arachne.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:41 AM
Subject: [lace] Re: Wear More Lace!
On Jan 10, 2005, at 19:16, Catherine Hill
Tamara wrote:
I think the last sentence is the most revealing one... You can't make
BL lying in bed and talking on the phone to your buddies about your
enemies and their pimples :)
This is why I do not consider teaching bobbin lace to the young to be the
most efficacious way of promoting
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This is why I do not consider teaching bobbin lace to the young to
be the most efficacious way of promoting modern lace. Their role is to
wear it and look great. If they were working away in silent loneliness for
the
hours it takes to produce
Oh, I don't know
thoughtsnow back to Lurk Dom.
Yours in lace,
Joan
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Sent: January 11, 2005 6:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Wear More Lace!
Tamara wrote:
I think
On Jan 10, 2005, at 21:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
How about having the young and beautiful design the lace that they
would
feel comfortable wearing to trendy events and the old and patient can
make it.
*Can* a person who doesn't know anything about lacemaking design lace?
When I was
Hi Tamara,
I applaud the soundness of your thinking, but unfortunately, designers who
understood the construction of lace and the limitations of production were not
as universally available as you might think.
I am thinking primarily of the 19th Century when the industrial revolution
In a message dated 1/11/2005 8:17:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*Can* a person who doesn't know anything about lacemaking design lace?
I do think that it would be advantageous to call upon the young people who
were exposed to lacemaking before they became too
Better yet, give her a speaker phone! g
Avital
Devon wrote:
ferreting out the trendy places to wear it. It takes hours and hours on the
phone to find out where the cool people are.
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If you want to promote modern lace, pin a piece to a teenager and give her a
cell phone!
Devon
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Hi and welcome, Joan. My personal experience with lace on clothing is that most
people assume that it was machine-made or can't tell the difference between
machine-made and hand-made lace. People's eyes aren't attuned to lace. Someone
who notices clothes will spot an unusual cut, fabric, pattern,
On Jan 10, 2005, at 9:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
I am glad to see that the campaign has taken root in the Pacific
Northwest
and in London. Volunteers needed for Saint-Tropez. No, on second
thought, I'll
take Saint-Tropez.
A black dress offsets lace better than Caucasian skin-tone, I
On Jan 10, 2005, at 19:16, Catherine Hill wrote:
No, we shouldn't be giving modern lace to the young
and beautiful in our circles of acquaintance. We
should be teaching them to make their own modern laces
to wear. It can replace knitting as the next big
thing that everyone who is anyone is
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