When I was still teaching, I can remember an evening when my students were getting really frustrated by the lack of conformity in terminology. "Why can't you all just agree on a set of terms?" (Spoken with irritation and a grumpy tone of voice.) I said "that's bobbin lace. Deal with it!". But actually the disagreements about terminology result from that fact that we don't tend to stay only within the territory of our native local tradition when it comes to bobbin lace. Most of us are fascinated by all those other national and regional traditions, in other languages, and on other continents. The richness of this world tradition is what causes the terminology problem. And, personally, I'll happily put up with terminology disagreements so long as I can access all those traditions. Lorelei
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