acement lace group, The Ottawa Guild of
Lacemakers has just celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Malvary on Peterborough where I'm spending a few days away on holiday to see
the beautiful fall colour
> From: jdhamm...@msn.com
> To: lizl...@bigpond.com; lace@arachne.com
> Subject: Re: [la
ect: [lace] learning on your own
Up in the Top End (of Australia), <. ...> (1980s), I remember
someone
looking at my Beds lace I
was working on, and wishing she knew enough to move on to Beds and Bucks Pt.
laces. Her teacher was keeping her on little torchon edges, - and she told
Up in the Top End (of Australia), some 25 or more years ago, a lady got
herself a copy of rosemary shepherd's Beginners book, and taught herself
from that book. She then found some other like-minded ladies, lent the book,
and helped them learn from it. There is now a thriving Lace Group in the
are
Dear Alice and other Friends,
We have had several people right here on
Arachne who had pursued the skills on their own.
I believe I was the first person to learn bobbin lace via the
Internet & Arachne back in late 1995.
I know I began with "20 Lessons in Bedfordshire Lace" and made 3 or 4
I take my hat off to anyone that can learn from a book. I have to see
something before I can understand it - words mean nothing!!! CD's have
helped tremendously as far as that is concerned but then the CD player and
the pillow are not always in the same room!!! I also had the good fortune
to sta
Of course, you can learn on your own. Many people have done it... with
whatever book or information they could put their hands on at the time.
These
days, there are so many more sources of help than 20 or 30 years ago
books, videos, CD's, internet. We have had several people right here on
Ar
