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My lace teacher/mentor of 20+ years, started her lace journey with
Honiton!!! I started with Torchon but one of my students wanted to make
lace pictures from the very beginning and she is only working in
Milanese. So, as Ilske said, it depends on what one wants to do in lace
and also your
Hi Everybody:
The chart is bigger than letter-sized paper, and my software was cutting off
the chart after 10 inches. So I went into the page setup dialogue box (under
"file" in my web browser - I'm using Firefox) and scaled the size down to 35%.
At that point the entire height of the chart wou
Hi Lorri,
  I tried to right click and save it to Word but when I clicked
paste I only got part of the chart too. So I just went and clicked on each
chart and saved the picture. I still don't know how this will print out. When
looking at the pictures on the monitor the graphs look narrow and sma
How to start learning lacemaking belongs where you live and what the different
teachers think it would be the right.
I know people which started without any lace-type in mind of the teacher. Other
with braid lace or Torchon. In the Netherlands I knew people starting with
Point Ground lace or Fla
Yes, torchon can be boring--but not to a beginner! There are so many
things to learn when one is first starting and torchon does make it
simple. On the other hand, I found myself quite mixed up when I
started, because everything was white, passives and workers alike.
When I found Lisiane
Doreen Wright's Bobbin Lacemaking starts with point ground. Also various books
about Honiton, Flanders etc start with the basics of that type of lace.
> I know of no book that teaches bobbin lace by starting anywhere than
> with what is considered Torchon.
Brenda in Allhallows
www.brendapaterno
In the 'old days' we'd be using snail mail to order lace supplies, often sight
unseen, we wouldn't know each other, you couldn't learn to make lace online,
see each other's work, all sorts of things. As my grandfather said, you gotta
take the bitter mit the sweet.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylva
I found this site, where there are loads of designs in the "flat" which
could be adapted to lace designs.
http://mehndidesigns.hosuronline.com/home/
Agnes Boddington - Sunny Elloughton UK
PS Does anyone have surplus rain for my veggies?
Came across these henna pictures while browsing and was im
Hello everyone
I hope it is OK for me to post this to you all at Arachne but the North
Downs Webpage is down. We are all working hard to correct the problem but
until this is done if you require tickets or information for our Lace Day on
24th September this year please contact me on su...@lineon
Came across these henna pictures while browsing and was immediately struck by
their lace like quality, using similar motifs and patterns.
http://www.funzug.com/index.php/fashion-trends/most-beautiful-henna-colours.html
Some of them would translate into beautiful lace pieces don't you think?
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Lyn wrote:
< I know of no book that teaches bobbin lace by starting anywhere than
with what is considered Torchon. It's simplest, and with Torchon under your
belt, you can go a long way.>
In some ways torchon isn't the simplest because, being so geometric, every
mistake stands out, unlike many
We start students with Torchon because it is very basic. The students learn
the main three stitch formations, then learn to change from one to another in a
pattern. Expand that to include formations like diamonds, spiders, adding
gimp, fans, picots then they have a fairly good foundation t
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