Last weekend a good lace friend came to visit, bringing her husband
with her. Not content to sit around and mope, he busied himself
repairing all sorts of little glitches around the house, and then he
brought out his fancy movie camera and took pictures of me making a
leaf tally the way I learned to do it in Brioude. After they left
they posted the movie on YouTube, so it is now available to all who
might like to take a look.
I'm not all that good at impromptu lecturing, and you will find
errors, for which I crave your indulgence. I notice that I have said
twist when I meant cross and that a thread goes under when I should
have said over. But you are all very kind and patient and I am sure
that you will forgive my mistakes. I also notice that I made much of
the difference in ease of working tallies this way with continental
bobbins as opposed to midlands bobbins. This was because my friend,
something of a beginner at lacemaking, had been having trouble making
tallies with her midlands bobbins, which are all she has. It is not
meant to be a slur on one kind of bobbin over the other (I started out
with midlands myself), but to suggest that she might find it easier to
try bobbins without spangles.
Anyway, what's done is done, and I hope that this will clear up some
of the confusion which inevitably occurs when one is trying to explain
a process without visual aids. The link to YouTube is: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPezWMox5-M
> I hope you find it useful.
Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine USA on a lovely day.
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