From: "Dorte Zielke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: August 21, 2004 4:03:05 EDT
It hadn't even occured to me - when reading Dorte's message - to wonderIf you get to see old lace, and use a strong magnifying glass, you will
what would happen, if the teacher made a mistake in that first
repeat... :)
discover many mistakes, When the lacer hat to live by doing lace, it had to
be laced quickly, to earn, not to mucht time to undo, the tallies are not
perfect, I was recontructing a pattern, photo copy from Tonder museum,
there was a row off holes, and I couldn't understand why the pairs wouldn't
match above and beneath that row, I keept having either a hole to mutch ore
not enough pairs, until it was discovert, the prick distance was smaler
beneath that row, that is becourse they were not so lucky to have this graph
paper as we have now, there for it was so difficult to find out that
problem. There is many mistakes in the old lace but no one that didn't have
anything to do with lace would notice. And we usualy say as long you do the
same mistake in all of your sections it becomes the pattern, it is no more a
mistake, but one section with the right stich is then a mistake.
Dorte
Dorte's "When the lacer had to live by doing lace, it had to be laced quickly" [...] reminded me of my class (workshop) on Flanders, with Michael Giusiana (Ithaca, '97?)... Throughout the class, Michael kept trying to stop us from retro-lacing and correcting mistakes; "You do not have the time to go back and correct", he'd say. "Your children are at home, crying hungry", he'd say. "Every minute you make lace counts, as does every minute you spend undoing it", he'd say.
Finally, I had enough of the image of the empty throats waiting to be stuffed... When he caught me at my 2nd or 3rd retro-effort and repeated all th reasons against such, I looked up from my pillow and - bold as brass - said: "I married *rich*; I do this for pleasure"...
Even in the "old days" there were people who made lace because they enjoyed it, not because they had to. In the (many <g>) Danish and Swedish museums that Vibeke took me to in '01, I saw a lot of paintings with textiles (not always lace) in them. Mostly, it was the rich who *wore* the fancy stuff, true... But, the *only* couple where both the man *and* the woman looked contented instead of sour-faced...? The woman had a needle in her hand, and was crafting a piece of lace... <g> Since a postcard of the painting was available, I couldn't resist sending it to DH - what *better* excuse do I need for being "always at your knitting"?
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