Oh I so agree Catherine.
Maureen
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From: "Catherine Barley" <catherinebar...@btinternet.com>
To: <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 9:42 AM
Subject: [lace] diagrams
Alex wrote:
< In my experience the majority of lacemkers will follow the diagrams
<faithfully without understanding what is happening and also they believe
it
is
<the only way the pattern can be made.
When travelling abroad to teach, a tutor has no idea of the
experience/standard of work that each student has reached and usually
relies
on the student's assessment of her competence i.e. beginner, intermediate
or
advanced. When a student tells a tutor that she has reached an
'intermediate'
standard, naturally the tutor assumes that she does not need as much
attention/information as a complete beginner and is fully aware of the
basics
so will allocate a pattern requiring an intermediate level of skills.
When
giving a needlelace pattern to a complete beginner, the instructions give
a
'route' to travel in laying the cordonnet (outline couching) for the
pattern
and there are several different routes than one may take, but I can't draw
diagrams and written instructions for all of them , as this would be akin
to
writing a book, but always explain that there is 'more than one way of
skinning a cat'! This is the basic and first lesson that one learns to do
before actually starting a piece of needlelace - much the same as winding
your
bobbins, as you can't make bobbin lace without any thread on your bobbins
any
more than you can make needleace, without couching down a foundation on
which
to work.
I had a student who was extremely rude to me because the instructions I
had
given her did not include the 'route' to follow for couching the
cordonnet. I
told her that if she was of an intermediate standard, she should know
this; it
was quite obvious to me that she was a complete beginner. I offered her a
pattern with instructions suitable for a complete beginner, but she was
adamant that she was of an intermediate standard! One of the main
requirements of a tutor is that of patience.
Catherine Barley
UK
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