On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:08:50 -0400, Robin P wrote: >At 4:12 PM -0700 6/28/04, Janice Blair wrote: >>I saw some lace, mainly small pictures, for sale at the market on >>Havelska on Sunday but on Monday the vendors had changed. They had >>some Rumanian lace marked as "macrame"! > >From: Mary L. Tod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Janice, I've been told by a woman here who teaches Romanian Point >Lace that, in Europe, the name for this type of needle lace based on >a crochet cord *is* macrame. <<< > >That's also what it's called in Anna magazine, a European needlework & >crafts magazine. Or macrame crochet.
Bear in mind that Anna is a German magazine with an English language edition. Their translations don't always use customary names. The lace from Romania wasn't that well known outside Romania till the fall of the Iron Curtain, so I'd bet its name doesn't even have a customary translation in most European languages. -- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
