First, let me thank you all for your concern in connection with my eye surgery for a cataract and astigmatism on Thursday. I did not think you'd see the footnote in a note I sent about young people who make lace. I take medical issues lightly. Years ago, I had successful Lasik surgery on both eyes - one for reading and one for distance. Now, my reading (close-distance) eye needed tweeking. The most painful part was paying $1,500 for the implant to replace my natural lens! (Could buy a lot of lace books.) Cataract covered by insurance, but not the lens. I stayed in a hotel near the eye hospital, was checked Friday morning, and drove home. No pain. Today's vision is better than yesterday's. Being a Girl Scout, I wanted to take care of blurred vision problems in preparation for going to the Belgian lace celebration in 2018 - the 100th anniversary after the end of World War I. I expect there will be an acknowledgement of how lacemakers were saved from starvation during the war by the Commission for Relief in Belgium, headed by Herbert C. Hoover, who later was elected President of the U.S. The address Devon gave yesterday is most inspiring. I'll be giving the Brooklyn group an invitation to contact me if they are having difficulties finding lace books and things like that, because I belonged to their predecessor - The Lace Guild of New York. This became my lace foundation, and you have all benefited from my sharing lecture information from Helene von Rosenstiel, who was a Brooklyn lace conservator with a museum clientele. She would arrive via subway at meetings dragging a huge plastic bag full of distressed laces. Then, she would tell us how they came to be that way, and what would be necessary to save - or often be unable to save - them. One young lacemaker Devon is encouraging mentioned enrolling in an FIT textile conservation program. I found there were museum lectures about conserving and restoring textiles/embroideries/tapestries, but not much about lace. Perhaps it will be possible to prop up this student with some experience and a bibliography, since I have collected books (both good and bad) on the subject. It can be very frustrating to a young person when she is trying to learn something obscure about lace. It is what we on Arachne have been somewhat able to overcome. Please share lace knowledge with the young. The address from Devon: http://textileartscenter.com/blog/brooklyn-based-artists-launch-nyc-lace-gui ld/ Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center --------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 3/9/2017 10:45:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, devonth...@gmail.com writes:
In fact, there is an uprising in interest among the millennials in Brooklyn. ...the Brooklyn Lace Guild is attracting young women who are for the most part graduates of the art and design schools in New York and work in creative jobs. - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
