A&S Competitions

[Mark Harris]

        Reply to:   RE>>A&S Competitions


>> 
>> It seems that this maybe something done here in stargate.  i do know that we
>> have had competitions before where the artisan always stated their level of
>> expertise. 
>> 
>> meadhbh
>> 

>Ahh, I see.  I think this might be a good idea, except that who 
>determines when someone has passed say, the beginner level, and is now 
>really intermediate?

>I would hope that the artisan would be honorable enough to be truthful 
>about the project at hand.  In my case, I would definitely be a beginner 
>at blackwork, but advanced at Assisi or other forms of counted 
>cross-stitch work.  And so I would enter the project accordingly.

>Emher ni Maille

But are you going to consider the artisan dishonorable who really believes
he or she is still a beginner while others consider them intermediates?
This ranking of the artisans is the main problem I see with this idea.

Stefan li Rous