Janis,
You are so fortunate. A small group of us have been studying war laces
over the past few years, and have also encouraged the family to reprint. I
hope they will.
Kim
On Jul 4, 2015 1:23 PM, "Janis" <thelacepl...@hotmail.co.za> wrote:
> I would like to tell you about a wonderful talk I went to this morning.
> Professor Richard Brooksbank gave a talk on his great grandmother, Louise
> Lienaux Vergauwe. She was a young mother in World War 1 in Belgium, Her
> husband was drafted into the army and she managed to evacuate her children
> to Holland while she stayed in Belgium.
> During this time she taught herself to make lace from books and chose to
> demonstrate her anger at the situation, in lace. She only made 5 lace
> pictures, each about 40 x 50 cms, and one lace fan.
> 1. 'Defense of the Yser' depicting the german eagle on the back of the
> Belgian lion.
> 2. 'The prediction' depicting the Belgian lion holding the /german eagle
> down while the British bulldog lifts his leg over the eagles head, and the
> French cockerel and the Bussian bear attack the eagle.
> 3. 'Belgium bowed but not defeated'. 2 women, the belgian one being
> supported by the another.
> 4. 'America enters the war' with the Statue of Liberty and a so realistic
> picture of Kaiser Wilhelm.
> 5. 'King Albert
> 6. 'Peace' a lace fan with irises and a mother and child.
>
> The lace is amazing with the use of stitches etc giving a 3D effect to the
> pictures. After the war, when the family was reunited, she never made any
> more lace. Although she received awards for the laces and received offers
> to buy them, she never sold them but during WW2, when she had to flee
> Belgium she posted the fan to her sister in England as it was her most
> precious piece, and took the others with her.
> They are apparently, now in the Museum Communaux (is this the museum of
> lace and costume?)in Brussels.
> There is so much more to the story and it was absolutely fascinating. I am
> so inspired by the quality of the lace and the story behind it. There is a
> book about it called The Story of Ma's Lace but it is out of print. I
> begged Prof Brooksbank to let me know if it is republished and he is
> thinking about it.
> Has anyone seen these laces in Belgium? I have tried to google more about
> this story but can find nothing. If there is any more information about it,
> I would love to hear it.
> This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear this talk on lace when
> we are so far away from the centres of lace in Europe and we all felt so
> privileged.
>
> Janis in South Africa, about to go to bed and dream about being able to
> make such amazing lace.
>
> Janis Savage
> t/a The Lace Place,
> P O Box 2126,
> Honeydew, 2040,
> South Africa
> www.thelaceplace.co.za
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