I have to jump in here....the first person I ever saw making bobbin lace was me! Since the mid 1930's I knew and was curious about the 'pretty lady making lace on the big pillow'....as described by a museum guard. Living close to NYC, one of my playgrounds was the NYC art museum. Finally, in the late 1960's, I learned WHAT she was doing! Thus started a love affair. Any more detail is burdensome. Smiles, BarbE
Sent from my iPad On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Sue Duckles <s...@duckles.co.uk> wrote: > Ok... I'm joining in now.... > > Before I started school, like Ilske, I saw lace being made by my aunt. She > promised she'd teach me when I started school, unfortunately she passed away > before I got there. I'd been fascinated by the beads at the bottom of the > bobbins.... One of the saddest things for me is that I don't have any of her > lace.... not counting the crochet edged table cloth she made for my Mum and I > still have!! > > It was over 50 years later that I found a teacher and started making lace! > > Sue in a still wintry East Yorkshire > On 23 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Ilske Thomsen wrote: > >> Sorry Jenny and Hazel, >> it could be me beating the record. I saw bobbin lace making as a child of >> three or four, sitting on the lap of my aunt. She was paralyzed on the right >> side of her body and did lace with her left hand with hooded bobbins on a >> roller pillow. And as you could imagine I forgot about. >> In 1981 on a travel to Canada I saw it again and got interest in it. But it >> took me till 1987 to get to a class. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
