In a message dated 6/5/2004 5:14:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In an early period in Europe (in the case of the painting at the Met - 1720 in Milan), when printed books were expensive and rare and possibly not very available to women, it was probably a real treat to have someone read. Yes, I imagine it was a treat to have someone read. I myself enjoy listening to recorded books while I make lace. But it is not to "break the monotony", it is to make an enjoyable experience even more pleasurable. As former publicity chairman for the New Jersey Convention I do not consider it a public relations coup to have a major museum characterizing lacemaking as monotonous on an instructional card. Sometimes as many as 36,000 people visit the museum in a single day. Now they are all absorbing the information that lacemaking is monotonous. How many advertisements in Piecework magazine will Debra Jenny need to barter for in order to overturn this presumption? The image of lacemaking as boring is already fairly widespread. Think of any other hobby, motorcycling, windsurfing, even stamp collecting. Would anyone ever ask of the hobbiest, "How do you break the monotony?" Why would anyone take up a monotonous hobby? Devon
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