Or they can be fastened at their central crossing and a ring laid over the fastening. Or a chain of rings can be laid on top of the spokes, and a secondary set of bars fastened from the frame to the rings and back again. Sometimes it is the spaces between the intersections that carry the modes. Rings and bars go together like fish and chips, or ham and eggs, or any of the other great combinations discovered or invented out of human mischief or inspiration. Both Carlier and Lovesey, who followed Carlier by 60 years, give wonderful examples, intoxicating to the lacemaker.
Picots are ubiquitous, sprouting irrepressibly from rings and bars and enliving everything.
And the most complex of jours can benefit too. Her 'Irises' won a first prize in the EGA Biennial 1988. Her 'Ortolan Pie' was on exhibit in 1988-89 at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, and was the subject of an article in Needle Arts, March 1989. She taught an individual correspondence course in needle lace for EGA for six years. She is a member and past president of the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild and has been a member of EGA for nearly 30 years.