Oh dear ALEX
I'm NOT into belittling anybody or their lace. I just make the stuff.
Best wishes for making an excellent piece of black Bucks.
I shall make an excellent piece of black lace and people can call it
what they like. Frankly I don't care. I've more important things to
worry about this week
David
Alex
----- Original Message ----- From: "David in Ballarat"
<d.collye...@aapt.net.au>
To: "Alex Stillwell" <alexstillw...@talktalk.net>; <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Miss Channer goes Chantilly
Dear Alex,
right now I'm very snowed under preparing to conduct Thurlow Weed's
world premiere next Saturday and frankly my mind is on that rather
than lace making techniques.
What I can say off the top of my head is that Chantilly is far more
than just black and half-stitch. I have incorporated the carrying
of bobbins along with the gimps; larger Toender-like holes; far
fewer twists than in Bucks Point; I also have no qualms about using
Elwyn Kenn's looper technique when possible. In short my Miss
Channer is quite a mixture. However, the finished result will be
far more readily classified as Chantilly than Bucks Point.
Back to arranging brass parts
David
I am very curious as to why working Miss Channer's mat in black with half
stitch for the 'clothwork' areas should be called 'going Chantilly'. Surely
you are just making Bucks Point using black thread. Bucks Point
was frequrntly
made using black thread and then the 'clothwprk' areas were
invariably worked
in half stitch. Please will you explain which techniques you are
using make it
Chantilly instead of Bucks Point.
Intrigued
Alex
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