At 09:38 PM 11/5/2005 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote: don't know what the particular patterns are like.
I think I will start with the shark pattern as it *looks* the easiest (famous last words are spoken here) - you can see a picture of it at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dentelle.fuseau/reportagemarieantoinetteA.htm Since I know (from our previous correspondence) that you like to experiment, I think that approach would be right up your alley :) lol - you know me so well :) what books would you recommend me to read that would teach me these techniques? Any and every book you can lay your hands on; that's standard advice for executing all modern lace, because chances are the designer is "borrowing" from many techniques. I bought what I considered to be torchon based books but the one by Bridget Cook called Techniques of Bobbin Lace looks like the one I will be referring to the most :) Indian Art Silk (I think that is rayon) Yup. It's also likely to make your exercise more difficult than if you tried it with cotton. But I've long ago realized that the "thread" which binds all lacemakers starts with a question: "just how hard can it be?" and procedes, from there, to the most difficult solution... :) It is the selection of colours and the shine that have got me - and *just how hard can it be?* (more famous last words I bet) I wish I wasn't teaching at the moment as every hour I can't do lace is pure hardship. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/161 - Release Date: 11/3/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
