bobbin lace supplies
Someone moving contacted me about their bobbin lace supplies and asked if the guild would be interested. Doug went and picked it up and it now resides behind the Leclerc loom until I have the time and energy to go through it.
There is a stack of books that might get sold as a fund raiser, but I suggested to one guild member that between the pillows that were donated and my own, I could potentially do a small (4 students max) class and teach torchon lace. If we all wore masks, kept good distance, we could make it work. In the new year. After our guild sale is over.
I’ve been saying for years that I want to get back to making lace and this might just be the spur to finally do it.
I’ve been having a hard time trying to justify making bobbin lace. It isn’t much in vogue these days and is very time consuming. To make good lace, you really need to use fine threads.
But what constitutes ‘good’ lace? What may have been true before, may not be true now. So while I let the packages of books and supplies sit, I am simmering thoughts of what lace is and what it might be now, in these pandemic times.
Trim for masks? Possible. I suspect we are going to be advised to wear a mask for quite a while and why not make them pretty?
Things change and morph, depending on what is happening at the time. And adding beauty is never a bad thing.
Plus the advantage to teaching beginners is that I can use nice big fat yarn (as in 2/8 cotton size – that’s fat for lace).
It seems the universe has a way of showing me the direction I should be going – like when weaving kept showing up in my life. Spinning wheels. Now bobbin lace. I sense a trend.