I can remember those days as well. My first lace teacher used to have the lace
patterns which we pricked through them, there were no instructions, no
technical drawings and sometimes not even a sample of the lace to look at.
Those were the days before Pamela Nottingham books, my first lace
Geesh Maureen
Had to look up what heelball is!
You taught me something today.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Then I went to a teacher who taught me to draw out patterns on graph paper
and never looked back. I Even have some heelball in a box somewhere.
Maureen
E Yorks UK
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I remember that when I first started to learn BL we were taught to prick
through one card to make another. You soon learned who not to lend your
prickings to!
The black substance Devon referred to would be heelball, which is a mixture of
wax and lamp-black (soot!), and used for polishing
It was definitely the photocopy machine that led to the adoption of blue
film. When I started taking lace lessons in 1971 my teacher pricked the
prickings. She would draw them on graph paper because it is more accurate to
prick the intersection of two lines, than a dot. Then she would prick
