I am currently teaching one student - a woman near my own age that saw lace
being demonstrated who wanted to learn.  I have only had the opportunity to
teach a few so my comments are just a couple of items that may help
with motivation and progress.Â
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I strongly suggest to any beginner - get
is a good learning tool.
They can see just how each pair/thread moves.
Lorri
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From: Elizabeth Shipp<mailto:ship...@googlemail.com>
To: lace@arachne.com<mailto:lace@arachne.com>
Sent: 04/06/2010 5:18 AM
Subject: [lace] teaching beginners
Hi all,
I h
Christine wrote:
pictures of patterns 1 and 2 have been switched. I recently had a very
tearful
student who had spent hours trying to solve this puzzle, and had also asked
an
experienced lacemaker who didn't spot the error! I saw it straight away, but
had never noticed it before as I had never
I would be wary of recommending a lacemaking book for beginners, unless you
have thoroughly checked it out yourself. My copy of The Torchon Lace Workbook
that was mentioned,has a terrible error right at the beginning, where the
pictures of patterns 1 and 2 have been switched. I recently had a very
I think beginners need a good basic instruction book as a reference to
have on hand. It would have a planned series of basis lessons, and
probably some other patterns that build on the basic skills. The Torchon
Lace Workbook is one of the best but is no longer in print or available
at a reasonab
I have found myself in a similar position. I am trying to teach some young
people in their 20's and 30s how to make lace. Even though I make complex
lace now, I learned so long ago that I don't really remember the beginning
things or how they were taught.
I learned through a series of pattern
Hi Clay,
Thanks for that quick response!
Actually, as they are both non-native-English speakers (one French, one
Italian), I have been thinking about Les bases de la dentelle au fuseau, by
Mick Fouriscot. Does anyone have any experience with or opinion on that
book? I do have some of Mme Fouris
There are *many* excellent teachers on this list, and I don't claim to
be one of them. However, I do think that one of the best things you can
do for a new student is direct them to a good book which they can keep
and refer to as they progress. The one I recommend is "The Torchon Lace
Workboo
Hi all,
I have two colleagues who have now started bobbin lace and want to
continue. I started each of them with cloth stitch (CTC), just making a
narrow strip to get the movements and the "rules" of bobbin lace down.
I'm not sure that I am the best teacher they could have, as once I had had
the
I don't remember if anyone has mentioned Rosemary Shepherd's new book, "An
Early Lace Workbook" which she published recently, which covers the subject
of mock picots.
You can read more about the book on her website, www.lacedaisypress.com.au.
I'm having some fun at the moment working a simple met
On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:39, Chris Vail wrote:
I taught a beginner 16th c. bobbin lace course. It was...
interesting. I usually teach this class in two hours to about 6 people
at a time (basic twist and cross, plaiting -- I
don't cover picots).
And just as well, since there don't seem to have
That is 100% okay! It would be great if people were to do that.
BTW, I don't mind *brief* excursions into non-lace topics. Obviously,
a normal person is not going to write about a lace day or conference
without mentioning great friends, bad food, etc.! I only ask that when
the non-lace content is
Devon and others,
I think you have made some great points about designing, if you 'first' have
the desire to design.
Then there are some who 'just do it'.
I never thought of myself as a designer (a very minor one at best) until I
took college are classes (I was in my 40s at the time). But I had b
Thank you all for your wonderful reflections regarding teaching lace.
I just finished my first teaching of beginner lace using Gillian Dye's
Beginning Bobbin Lace book. I had 7 students, including one with
macular degeneration and one that had had 2 strokes. I discovered that
some students
In a message dated 4/8/2009 7:11:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nancy.nichol...@hotmail.co.uk writes:
I have been reading these stories about teachers and students and now
designing! How do you even begin to design?
This is a subject that I have been thinking about for some years, and no one
w
with a
newbie a couple of them will go and help out someone else if needed. When
hearing about some of your stories I am very lucky with my class.
Nancy
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> Subject: [lace] Teaching..eml
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I used to try and encourage students to work out a pricking from a lace
photograph, simple torchon to start with and then progress further when
they had acquired more experience and design something themselves.
When I started lace classes in 1976, Tordis Berndt had Maidment and
the two Sw
Hi everyone,
I have answered Bev privately since I'm on the digest and that one only
arrived today.
And to make a long story short,
yes my "dibble" is exactly like the one shown on the website Bev mailed us.
Have a look. It makes a bobbin when you screw a big screw in, perhaps not
the best bob
Hello Miriam and everyone
Right - the camping mats are excellent for BL pillows. I made several
round cookies from one, by stacking several layers in decreasing
circumference. Fiddly to cut, but once firmly bound around a flat
round they are nice and light. I stapled cloth over them, around to
the
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who so generously offered advice
and support! The girls are going to be thrilled!
I'm excited, too. It will be quite a challenge, teaching kids to lace when
I've never had a real lesson myself!
Thanks so much,
Sr. Claire
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Sister Claire,
I have been making my own pillows for years. I just use the polystyrene you
get for a few shekels at the building center and I cut it to shape. No need
to sew a cover you just pin it on. When it is gone or the holes get too deep
you throw it away. Not a big expanse. As the years
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:18:27 +0100
From: "Rosemary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [lace] Teaching children
Hi :)
I have found that the blue insulation boards that are sold at home
improvement stores is great for making basic pillows for teaching and even
for traveling places
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From: Sister Claire
Date: 30/09/2008 15:03:09
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Teaching children
Two young Palestinian girls (about 12 years old) were visiting me the other
day and were enchanted with my lacemaking. They want to learn, I'll be happy
to
Hello Sister Claire.
Perhaps some of the "purists" of Arachne will tell me off for what I
am going to say. But... I think that for a start, and not having
proper pillows to teach, you could make a pillow from anything you
have near. I started making bobbin lace with a piece of white
polystyrene (t
Hello Sister Claire,
Any polystyrene will do, one can usually acquire it from an electrical goods
shop, cover the piece with a cloth, this should last while they are learning,
even bobbins can be improvised with a little ingenuity. Hope this helps.
Best wishes
How lovely that they are interested. Yes, I've seen people working on the
opposite side of the same pillow. I'm sure it's harder but better than
nothing while you get them started.
I taught children in an after-school class at the local school for a few
years, and found the attached fish patter
Two young Palestinian girls (about 12 years old) were visiting me the other
day and were enchanted with my lacemaking. They want to learn, I'll be happy
to teach them. The problem is that neither their families nor I have the
money to buy them starter kits.
I was thinking. Would it work if for the
Hi Martina,
Thanks for the encouragement. This is the first time I will be teaching
someone other than a friend one-on-one. I will have to re-learn to knit and
crochet left-handed for the class (haven't had to do that for over 30 years).
But I think I will really enjoy it.
Helene
Hello Helene,
it sounds really exciting to get an opportunity teaching handicrafts. I am
teaching
bobbin lacemaking to adults and children a few courses a year and occasionally
I do a
course on patchwork.
I am sorry that I can't help with crochet and knitting teaching material, but
it may he
Hi,
I have been offered a chance to teach beginners crochet and knitting at the
local community college in the fall.
I was wondering if anyone out there may have teaching materials they are
willing to share.
The lady who is in charge of the adult education program had never h
I know these things can be a matter of opinion and that there is no limit to
different opinions just as there is no limit to different ways of approaching
lacemaking.
Remember when working with a beginner at the very beginning, we are working on
a strip of nothing but a single continous stitch
Dear spiders, and Jacqui
I'm glad with the positive reactions in this case. In my country I got
negative reactions because I started teaching without the bobbin lace
teachers course: "I thought we are past that pioneering stage" was the
comment.
As I had more experience than six months I assembled
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I think we have established that you can't make money by making lace.
Breaking even by publishing a lace book is far from certain. I am giving a lace
talk with slides and have now spent in the neighborhood of 1
Hi Sharon,
A smaller alternative to the 'snake' would be to draw a leaf sort of
shape, perhaps 1 and a half to 2 inches long. With suitable colours, in
pearl cotton or similar this can be turned into a fish. You can add an
eye with a bead and bundle the pairs at the end just as you do with the
Dear Lorelei and all you other kind spiders who have responded. I'm
beginning to revise my opinion about using the snake as a starter project
since a couple of you pointed out some areas of potential difficulty.
Perhaps the boring bandage might be best after all? I hadn't thought of
tape lace as
Hi All, I always learn something when I read what others have learned about
teaching. I even have something to add on teaching BL - or learning it I
should say. I learned using the "horror kit" which wasn't quite so bad when
I bought it. I made the bandage and then a 6" (17cm) long 1" (2.5cm)
Sharon
I once actually timed myself and my students on a particular piece of tape
lace I had devised. I wanted to be sure that the students would get far
enough in a 3 hour class to work at home for the rest of the week, just
repeating what they had learned in class. I discovered that my students
Hello Spiders,
I have twin 12-year-old boys and both of them made lace ornaments this
year. One of them started making lace about two years ago and I started
him on a 'bandage'. That took him less than an hour to master. Then I had
him make a half stitch snake which was a little harder but h
Dear Helen,
my daughter, now 9, made her first attempts at age of 5.
in between, i taught the first stitches to about ten more children, mostly
during holidays, so there were only a few days to finish at least a little
bookmark. Those children were from eight to ten years old.
if possible, I take
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