Hi Jeanette and other Spiders
I was inspired to make some Cretan lace myself and downloaded the book from
the Digital Archives of Lace books and articles.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_lace.html
Koustouraki-Koukoulari, Kristina. Cretan Bobbin Lace [Kritiko Kopanelli],
1985, 43 pages. Note: Translation from the Greek. Provided by Tess Parrish.
Needless to say it remains an unfinished project!
Lindy in Ireland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanette Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lace]Value of lace.
I have just returned from OIDFA in Athens. In a shop selling household
linens was the most beautiful table cloth in the window and we went inside
to look. It was a 1 metre square white cloth with a 10 cm deep tape lace
edging - hand made and the centre of the cloth was embroidered. The price
was about 150 Euro's - I cannot remember exactly. What I do remember was
that I thought that I certainly would not sell my handwork for that
price!!! The saleslady said that the piece came from Crete as they made the
finest bobbin lace in Greece. She said that there were also bigger cloths.
I did buy a hand embroidered runner from Crete. So there are still people
making lace and selling it!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.
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