Hello,
I guess if I had had a teacher insisting on me learning straight Torchon if I
all I wanted to do is some nice, flowery Beds, I’d not be as positive towards
it, either.
I am sorry about the way things went with your friend, but I do wonder why she
let that teacher frustrate her so much.
She was fuming about it the other day but when I asked if she wanted me to send
pictures of lace that I see at the English museums she said yes! Hope springs
eternal... Susan
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Sue,
Maybe you need to treat her to a gift of beginning Beds lessons. Failing that,
get her a book that she can self learn from... graded patterns from super easy
that teach something new with each progressive pattern. That is how I self
taught myself Buckspoint and I refused to do Torchon as
Thank you for your opinions Clay & Gabriele. You could have knocked me over
with a feather when I read AB’s quote! We all have preferences so it’s only
natural that one—or more—styles of lace winds up at the bottom of someone’s
list. The same is true for music, literature, whatever. With
Susan wrote:
> Had to chuckle at another quote: “Torchon, an unsophisticated lace of
> repetitive geometric patterns based on diagonals with a heavy, five hole
> mesh...” Most of you know that Torchon is not my favorite & AB managed to
> capture my sentiments in a nutshell.
Are you
Hi Susan!
Thanks for the book review.
I am going to take this opportunity to disagree with the source of your quote
regarding their
assessment of Torchon. Actually, I believe that like any other lace style,
Torchon is quite lovely when used by talented designers, and worked by
sensitive
Since I just finished reading the book, I wanted to recommend it & quote:
“Mrs Armstrong, born in 1860 at Thurleigh, said (1943) that in her prime she
could work about a yard & a half of Bedfordshire Maltese border, one & one half
inches wide in two days. For this, Lester would pay her 1s 6d a
