I am going to go out on a limb here… <\/p>\n
I don’t understand biscornu.<\/b><\/p>\n
(And I don’t know what the plural for “biscornu” is, or maybe that is plural? If it is plural, what is the singular?)<\/p>\n
Biscornu are everywhere these days, primarily as counted thread projects. But every time I see some of them, I think “but what is it? What do you do with it?”<\/p>\n
I think they’re quite nifty, the way I assume they are constructed – I’ve never actually looked into how they are actually constructed, I just assume I understand the process. I figure they use two squares, where the points of one square are attached to the middle of the sides of the other square, and vice versa, leading to a clever zig-zag around the edge. Like the fingers of two hands interlocking from opposite sides.<\/p>\n
So, those of you who make biscornu, what do you do with them? Are they just pretty dustcatchers?<\/p>\n
If I think about them through the lens of William Morris’s famous quote, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,” I can agree that some of them are beautiful. Maybe some have found uses for them, though I am not sure what.<\/p>\n
I have things in my house that are just beautiful, and not useful. Most of the framed pictures on our walls do not qualify as useful – well all of them, actually. But I do consider them to be beautiful. But they are also practical in some ways. Because they are framed with glass, they have a certain level of longevity built into them.<\/p>\n
The doilies I make in my Mountmellick classes etc, are not particularly useful, (though I think they are beautiful) but at least they are practical, in that if you do want to use them, they can be washed. And doilies do have a use, its just that most of us don’t bother with them these days.<\/p>\n
I have other things in my house that are just beautiful and not useful, such as some pieces of furniture. And quite frankly, they are the things that my “reverse culture shock eyes” see as the first things that need to go in The Purge.<\/p>\n
So I am just trying to understand the point of biscornu (or whatever the plural is). I can’t. Even if they are beautiful, surely they are dustcatchers. I guess you *might* be able to wash them, but perhaps that would be a bad idea, depending on the threads used to decorate them.<\/p>\n
As a disclaimer, I am coming to this discussion with the growing view that Stuff for the sake of Stuff is anathema to me. I have a birthday coming in the next while, and it bothers me that I have to “dream up” suggestions for family who want to give me something. Really, I love the fact that they want to show me that they love me in that way, but it is just so unnecessary to give me something. We’re trying to empty our house of unnecessary Clutter and Stuff, so do I have to add more?<\/p>\n
So it is with this in mind that I try to understand biscornu…<\/p>\n
Please explain to me what the point is… I really want to understand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am going to go out on a limb here… <\/p>\n
I don’t understand biscornu.<\/p>\n
(And I don’t know what the plural for “biscornu” is, or maybe that is plural? If it is plural, what is the singular?)<\/p>\n
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