Hello Lynne, Thank you for the photos. Yes, bobins, pillow and pricking on your photos are specific of Tignes.
Have a look : http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/International/TIGNESFr.html There is a lacemaker group near Tignes. Sometimes they come on lacemeeting : Have a look to pictures 1 and 2 : http://www.lesdiversespassionsdejosi.com/article-les-clubs-exposants-au-couvige-de-crolles-69928802.html and here : http://www.dentellieres.com/Reportage/R2008/Saint-etienne-du-bois/StEtienneduBois2.htm Dentelez bien Sof in France Le 11/08/2011 16:00, Lynne Cumming a écrit : > I've just spent a week high in the French Alps and was lucky enough to come > across a French lacemaker demonstrating at a Mountain Festival in Tignes. > Unfortunately my French has been hard hit by spending time in Austria > attempting to use German and the lady had little English but I hope she > understood that I was a fellow lacemaker. She assured me that the gorgeous > chunky bobbins she was working with were specific to Tignes as well as the > hooped pillows she was working on. There was also an exhibition on the > development of Tignes as a ski resort due to the downturns of the late C19th > and early C20th when the population headed away from the high valleys and > farming and other industries such as lacemaking. I was delighted to see a > picture of the 'dentellieres' and have included it in my slideshow of the > lacemaker and her pillows and bobbins on webshots. Please see the link to > have a little look. > > I won't bore you with the alpine flowers, the wonderful views, the videos of > the cows parading up the street and the folkdancers - let alone the high > divers jumping from a helicopter into an icy lake! However, in due course > those may well make it to another album..... > > Enjoy! > > http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/580711262bzJKdr > > Lynne > > Lynne Cumming, back in cold, wet Baldock, North Herts UK > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of > image001.jpg] > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
