In a message dated 1/31/2005 8:40:08 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This thread is so interesting, from the point of view of actually learning how others live! Jean, giving the details of your home makes me realise how lucky I am in my great big barn of a place. This is a very interesting thread, especially to me. My husband and I were living in London when I started to make lace and my first class was under the auspices of the Inner London Education Authority. I went a long way by Underground to a school that had been closed for regular use and turned over to the Inner London Authority for adult education. Our teacher was Kate Riley, now retired, this is still a name very well known in England. Kate was one of the first teachers to make diagrams to help lacemakers understand the order in which to make the stitches. When Kate was required to retire because of age, one of the lacemakers in the class offered her dining room to the class, and those of us who wanted to continue arranged to pay Kate privately and we moved to the private house. A couple of years later, my husband's job was transferred to Brussels. There, I discovered a class that met at the Art Museum. The teacher there was Mme Simone Jacquemin, a wonderful lacemaker who had learned to make lace in Bruges and was part of the first group of Belgian lacemakers who devised the Belgian method of color coding..One of her helpers there was Mme Ghyslaine Maes, who lived near me in the southern suburban area of Brussels and became a dear friend. At the museum, Mme Jacquemin taught us Bruges Flower Lace. (Btw, Mme Jacquemin also organized the Lace course for the first OIDFA Congress which was held in Bruges in 1984.) As it turned out, Ghyslaine lived near me in the southern areas of what is greater Brussels and she became both a teacher and a dear friend. In her home 7 or 8 of us learned to make various Belgian laces. Until her untimely death last year, Ghyslaine was the President of OIDFA So You can see that I have been very lucky to have gifted teachers and I've had all sorts of different places in which to make lace. Different teacher each have their own methods. They can all work just as different rooms can work. My advice is to make the best of what is available! Elaine Merritt, now at The Lace Museum 552 S. Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
