On 20/04/2015 10:54, Noelene Lafferty wrote:
Will this do?
Oh yes, Noelene, it certainly will !
It's absolutely brilliant, and absolutely to the point.
I went to a lace day school once, after I'd been teaching myself to make
lace with books and a video, and ran into the lace police. As it turned
out, I was assigned to an overflow class with a very good teacher, who
was able to help me to understand tensioning, something for which I've
thanked her spiritually a thousand times and more. But the main class
was run by a teacher who was very strict about how things should be
done, and was very authoritarian in her manner. And not only did her
pupils learn to make lace in this teacher's way, they also learned to be
very disparaging of any other way of lacemaking, and even of learning to
make lace in any other way, too. I saw thirty women being trained up to
bully others: "lace police cadets". As you can guess, I've never joined
another class, and I've continued to enjoy making lace in my own way and
to my own satisfaction. Also, I rejoiced when I found this list, and
I've loved all the messages, and websites, and videos, from all over the
world, because they have given me a far broader and deeper understanding
than I could ever have got in any other way.
So, along with Noelene, I say - up the rebels !
Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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