I think the idea of community effort to make a large project is a great
idea. I know that was practiced in the past to get a large project finished in
the smallest amount of time. Many different lace makers would work on a
portion of the lace and then a trained person would sew the pieces together. I
would love to participate in a project that was like that.
Karisse
Cold, wet
Washington State
On November 23, 2020 at 10:43 AM, Pierre Fouché
<pierre.fou...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Elena and Arachnids
I'm very intrigued
by this as well and find it interesting that
contemporary lacemakers don't
value speed and efficiency as much as
knitters do for example. Anyone who has
learned how to play a musical
instrument can attest to muscle memory not
happening after a week or a
month of practice, yet the reward for regular
practice is noticeable
improvement. The joy of experiencing your hands on
auto-pilot and your mind
seemingly blocking out every other stimulus with a
razor-like focus is a
"destination" worth practicing for. (I am not nearly
there at all... but I
have glimpsed a couple of "nearly there" moments)
Of
course, it doesn't help that many lacemakers are inquisitive of many
different
styles and techniques (the equivalent of taking up multiple
musical
instruments...)
I'm equally intrigued by the idea of communal work as a means
to create
efficiency - to have a collective work on a large scale project
("large" in
effort, and not necessarily in size) and of what value that could
be for
commemorative objects, or simply for building a community. From time to
time such projects arise, and they are all commendable, but it would be
great
to see more and to see lace collectives confidently engaging with
their
immediate communities *and* the broader public (through major public
art
commissions for instance...)
Please keep this conversation going? Any hack
might just turn out to be the
thing that was missing in someone's technique.
(That said, I've seen a
couple of unique knitters do very counterintuitive
finger gymnastics at
incredible speeds, so it might just boil down to practice
in the end.)
One thing I can highly recommend from experience is to sand and
polish your
DIY bobbins to the absolute smoothest finish you can because
super-careful
bobbin management on the pillow to keep your thread from
snagging slows
things down significantly. (Guess who's on sanding duty for the
next couple
of days in order to avoid that frustration again?)
Best
Pierre
Cape Town
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