>---- jeria...@aol.com wrote: >A large fully-dressed pillow with many bobbins and dense >pattern is discouraging and elicits the usual "I don't have the patience!". Speed reading slays my intent every so often. The word "dense" is important in above sentence. I have seen lacemakers with so many pins on a pillow that untrained eyes cannot see the lace developing in the area being worked. Yes, the finished lace is emerging from the back, but it really is not the best way to show the progression of lacemaking if there is only one lacemaker present. I am also thinking of those laces where bobbins require stacking. Stacks of bobbins can be intimidating! Worse still, is the grey-haired demonstrator who tells her audience it has taken a lifetime to learn to make lace and she has been working on this piece for X number of months or years.. You've lost a possible young lacemaker by then. We live in a time when almost instant gratification is expected. If the public comes first to a lace with open areas, like Torchon, the concept is easier to grasp. If that first lacemaker explains the equipment on her pillow and how bobbin lace is made, then hands them off to the person working something more challenging, that would be the way I'd prefer being introduced to bobbin lace if I knew nothing about the subject. We should not expect a person rushing through a demonstration area to grasp intricacies of the subject we love immediately. We are taught the A B C's, before we put the letters together and learn to read. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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