Karen,
You described using brightly colored threads for your beginners so that you can
reference which pair of bobbins to address. A technique I used when I was
working a very complex pattern was to trace the pathways of my pattern using
colored pencils. Then I placed color matched elastics
I'm following this thread with great interest and am about to start my
first virtual lace class as a student. It is needle lace instead of bobbin
lace, so it will be interesting to see what challenges are unique to lace
made in the hand vs on a pillow. Somehow students will need to arrange a
Antje and other potential virtual teachers,
I like to keep the virtual classes very small, 4-6 depending on their level
of lacemaking skills. You can have the students send photos or have them
scare their screen. Then you can annotate but that all takes extra time. I
teach on Zoom and use
Thank you very much, Karen.
But how do you do as a teacher? imagine you have 8 students making the lace
you are teaching, and that each of them has a different difficulty or are
doing something wrong. But you cannot take their pillow... They have good
diagrams, and pictures of the finished lace,
I think there are a couple of other advantages to online classes. It might be
possible to get teachers from far away to give classes in the Americas. Also,
in Europe and Britain, where there are many more lace makers, weekly classes
are common. Zoom plus a phone camera makes that relatively
We began with Meet. It worked well until we tried
to mount a second camera to show bobbin lace pillows.
It is challenging to get a second camera mounted
without the issue of feedback on Meet. It can be
done, but adds an extra layer of frustration for
the students.
Zoom seems to have addressed
Deborah, thank you very much for your advice! I will take note of it.
In fact, I like Zoom much better, it has more possibilities, even the free
version of 40 minutes. But it had some security problems at the beginning
of the pandemic, and some of my students do not want to use it. Anyway, I
Antje,
MEET is a Google product and some people will refuse to allow Google products
on their phones or computers for security reasons. MEET would have to be
downloaded and installed to their computer just like any other meeting
software. We use ZOOM at all of our organizations. Both products
Dear Karen, I too am curious at how you're making out.
Like Antje, the balance of a camera, computer, etc etc seems
costly. I have been working with someone on very basic beginner
things and it seems to be going ok but I can't imagine trying to teach
finer laces via this process.
Thanks for the
Thank you very much Karen for sharing your experience. It is of great help.
I am trying to organize lessons via the Internet, and am finding some
difficulties. I would like to make it as easy as possible for the students,
and that means that they should not have to buy extra technology nor
Dear Devon,
How wonderful! I am so thrilled for you!!! I knew it would be a splendid
success.
Best,
Elena
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Wonderful pictures, THANK YOU.
Doris O’Neill, Chicago area.
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> On Oct 6, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Sue Babbs wrote:
>
> If you haven’t yet got to New Jersey to see the contemporary lace exhibit,
> which Devon has so carefully and successfully curated it is well worth the
> visit.
>
>
Devon
It is great to hear about all the behind-the-scenes work for an exhibition.
Including how you try to create information for docents to use. Fascinating.
You'll do great.
Lorelei
Subject: [lace] Lace, not Lace, progress
Tomorrow I am supposed to give a tour to volunteers and docents so
Dear Janice,
I think the best photos would be the ones that are in the catalog, which will
be available from Amazon for $30.00. Those people attending the opening and
visiting the exhibit might like to buy the catalog from the museum to show
support for them taking the risk of holding an exhibit
Doris writes: An article about fiber art in last Sundayâs NYTimes Style
Magazine titledâA SINGLE THREADâ cited many artists and textile techniques
âknitting, weaving, crochet,embroidery etc.-but was disappointing in that
there was no mention of lace and lace artists.
I think a very sharp
Thanks, Devon
That answers a lot of the questions I had about this exhibit. It was good in
particular to see that the exhibit will go ahead anyway â it is rather the
scale of it that is in question.
As I participated in the crocheting of the Urchins I would be very excited to
see them in this
Dear Sue,
A similar question was asked by Alice earlier in the week. I put it to the
Director of the Hunterdon Art Museum and this was her answer.
âWe keep very good records of every donation - how much, from whom, etc.Â
The Museum has software specifically for tracking donations. It's
Hi Devon
Do you have a sense of how much money is still needed to fund the exhibition
at the Hunterdon, and what happens to the funds if they don't get enough for
the exhibition to go ahead?
One of the things I liked about the recent kickstarter for the Massachusetts
historical society book
Vis a vis leaves, I have found that the single greatest few moments of
video ever shot are those showing Christine Springett demonstrating a leaf on
one of her Bedfordshire lace videos. In fact, I worked through all her
Bedfordshire videos and it was the single greatest learning experience
Hello Paula,
My first problem is that all my right hand picots split, the left ones are
great what is
causing this please?
Right hand picots need to be worked as mirror images of left hand ones, I'll
send you some diagrams in a separate email.
Secondly my leaves are turning out like
SMP lace sells needlelace pillows for £4 uncovered (£8 covered)
See
http://www.smplace.co.uk/sfr_cat.htm
Sue (in snowy Illinois)
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While I covet a needlelace pillow with beautiful wood and turnings and
perhaps a little drawer like the ones seen in books, I took a class with Irma
Osterman and she had us use a tailor's ham. It worked fine, was inexpensive and
did not eat up valuable lacemaking time in having to construct
You can see a picture of my needlelace pillow at
_http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/_ (http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/)
Choose the Gallery option, and you'll be able to select a variety of
pictures of lace pillows. Needlelace is 3rd from bottom of list. My
needlelace
pillow has a
A needlelace pillow is smaller than a bolster pillow, but larger than the
roller from a roller pillow. A padded cylinder on the order of 4-6 (10-15 cm)
in diameter and 8-10 (20-30 cm) long. The actual size is not important. What
is important is to have some curvature, to get the ends of the
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