strathspey@strathspey.org:47273

Sophie Rickebusch

Re: Pilling diagrams

Dec. 4, 2006, 2:24 p.m. (Message 47273, in reply to message 47264)

Selon Andrea Re <xxxxxx.xx@xxxxxx.xxx>:

> After years of being unable to remember which symbol meant cast and
> which meant dance/lead, quite recently it dawned on me that those
> symbols are drawn from the lady's point of view. So if you look at the
> diagram, the lady is casting behind her line and if she is
> dancing/leading up/down she dances towards the the middle.

Quite, but why do that when all the rest is written from the man's point of
view? Is it some cunning ploy to confuse those who are not "in the know" (keep
the riff-raff out, as Basil Fawlty would say)? Or is it just random
inconsistency?

Sophie
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Sophie Rickebusch
FR - St Martin d'Heres