Re: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998
No, No, David... Please put the photos on Flicker if possible so that those of us not on Facebook can see them. Pretty Please!! Cheers, Shirley T. On 6/18/2017 10:56 PM, David C Collyer wrote: Dear Janis, I so enjoyed reading that speech. The Hon. Richard Mcgarvie sounds like a very human person with a great sense of humour as well as appreciation of the lace exhibition. Cousin Dick (as we called him) was a hoot. Sadly he died in 2003 from Motor Neurone Disease. I wish I had seen the exhibition. Are there any pictures on the net for us to see? I only joined arachne in 1999 after my children clubbed together and got me a start-up kit to get online. I can put some on Bobbin Lace Makers in Facebook. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/ - 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/
RE: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998
Dear Janis, I so enjoyed reading that speech. The Hon. Richard Mcgarvie sounds like a very human person with a great sense of humour as well as appreciation of the lace exhibition. Cousin Dick (as we called him) was a hoot. Sadly he died in 2003 from Motor Neurone Disease. I wish I had seen the exhibition. Are there any pictures on the net for us to see? I only joined arachne in 1999 after my children clubbed together and got me a start-up kit to get online. I can put some on Bobbin Lace Makers in Facebook. David in Ballarat, AUS - 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/
Re: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998
I so enjoyed reading that speech. The Hon. Richard Mcgarvie sounds like a very human person with a great sense of humour as well as appreciation of the lace exhibition. I wish I had seen the exhibition. Are there any pictures on the net for us to see? I only joined arachne in 1999 after my children clubbed together and got me a start-up kit to get online. Lace greetings from Janis Savage in South Africa (where the postal system has still not delivered my much anticipated bookmark) Subject: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998 Dear Friends, Today I was looking through some old files on Arachne and was reminded of the Exhibition I organised back in 1998. It was held here in Montrose Cottage, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia and I'm sure was the first such exhibition organised solely through the internet. I thought you might be interested to read the speech given by The Hon. Richard McGarvie when he opened the exhibition, so I'll reproduce it here in full. He did this all off the top of his head. In another email I shall post the details of the lace work for your interest. David in Ballarat, AUS The speech made by The Hon. Richard McGarvie at the opening of the International Lace show, January 14th, 1998. Richard was a former Governor of Victoria and my mother's 2nd cousin. "Thank you Brian, thank you Tom. Lesley and I are always delighted to be in Ballarat, we are particularly delighted today. We think that this unique International lace show could not have found a better home than Ballarat, in all of Australia it is the obvious place to be held. "Lacework is a craft of great beauty, we all come to have what today will be for us a feast of beauty which has quite definite indications of pleasure. Lace has been part of our culture for many, many years and that famous supreme court judge in the United States, poet and philosopher, Oliver Wendell Holmes wished to illustrate discord he said "discord is like hedgehogs dressed in lace, a great contrast". When Samuel Johnson wanted to emphasise Greek, he said: "the great value of Greek, sir, Greek is like lace, a man gets as much as he can." "This exhibition is symbolic of world cohesion. The fact that it is being held here in Eureka Museum and Montrose Historic Cottage reminds us that there is on exhibition today lacework which was made in Australia in the 1850s and modern lacework from all around the world, modern lace from Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, from Israel and Denmark. "The Macquarie dictionary tells us that lace is a net-like ornamental fabric made of threads and that makes us reflect that we have had very great advantage of a net like communication fabric made of electronics, because without the internet and without Arachne, the internet association, it would not have been possible to organise this. "It's not only part of our culture, lacework is part of world culture, and when Lesley and I in October 1983 were in that beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium during the Festival of the Canals, one of the things we delighted in seeing was the laceworkers of Bruges doing their work out on the footpath; men, women with centuries of experience behind them. "When we read the programme we learn a bit about laceworkers. One can't but read those biographical details in the programme without realising that laceworkers enjoy making lace. There's another feature; lace of course is used in another way: to lace someone's coffee is to put spirits in it either with their knowledge or without, and we find from those biographies that there is a very real spirit that permeates laceworkers, and it's a humourous self-mocking spirit. You can't help reading those biographies without realising that those people are very good people who enjoy laughing at themselves, and I suppose there is nothing more valuable for us all than to realise how inherently ridiculous we are, and enjoin in the general laughter about that. It is I think very fortunate that people like that have been brought together through the Arachne organisation that is involved and we all owe a great debt, the whole community not only those of us who are here, to David Collyer who has been the moving spirit in getting this together and we owe a great deal to co-operation which has come from well around the world. "Now, it's always useful in opening an exhibition of some craft or some particular skill if one can claim to have some connection. I can claim to have a connection to lace. I was a judge of the Supreme Court for 16 years and on a formal occasion, the opening of the legal year when the Supreme Court judges went in their robes to St Pauls, in addition to our full bottom wigs, and our Windsor breeches and our black stockings we had a lace jabot (Brian has one got almost the same) and lace cuffs. So I have had the benefit of lace workers over th
Re: [lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998
Wow, David - thanks ever so much. That was splendid to read, nearly 20 years on. I was 'there' - my little lace piece was in the exhibit. I still have it with a photo taken by another Arachne friend who attended the exhibit. My lace sea shell is on its exhibit board with a beautiful collar by Alice Howell, her Schneeberger frog, and Stormy Lee's Torchon cross :) On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:46 AM, David C Collyerwrote: > Dear Friends, > > Today I was looking through some old files on Arachne and was reminded of > the Exhibition I organised back in 1998. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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/
[lace] About OUR Exhibition of 1998
Dear Friends, Today I was looking through some old files on Arachne and was reminded of the Exhibition I organised back in 1998. It was held here in Montrose Cottage, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia and I'm sure was the first such exhibition organised solely through the internet. I thought you might be interested to read the speech given by The Hon. Richard McGarvie when he opened the exhibition, so I'll reproduce it here in full. He did this all off the top of his head. In another email I shall post the details of the lace work for your interest. David in Ballarat, AUS The speech made by The Hon. Richard McGarvie at the opening of the International Lace show, January 14th, 1998. Richard was a former Governor of Victoria and my mother's 2nd cousin. "Thank you Brian, thank you Tom. Lesley and I are always delighted to be in Ballarat, we are particularly delighted today. We think that this unique International lace show could not have found a better home than Ballarat, in all of Australia it is the obvious place to be held. "Lacework is a craft of great beauty, we all come to have what today will be for us a feast of beauty which has quite definite indications of pleasure. Lace has been part of our culture for many, many years and that famous supreme court judge in the United States, poet and philosopher, Oliver Wendell Holmes wished to illustrate discord he said "discord is like hedgehogs dressed in lace, a great contrast". When Samuel Johnson wanted to emphasise Greek, he said: "the great value of Greek, sir, Greek is like lace, a man gets as much as he can." "This exhibition is symbolic of world cohesion. The fact that it is being held here in Eureka Museum and Montrose Historic Cottage reminds us that there is on exhibition today lacework which was made in Australia in the 1850s and modern lacework from all around the world, modern lace from Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, from Israel and Denmark. "The Macquarie dictionary tells us that lace is a net-like ornamental fabric made of threads and that makes us reflect that we have had very great advantage of a net like communication fabric made of electronics, because without the internet and without Arachne, the internet association, it would not have been possible to organise this. "It's not only part of our culture, lacework is part of world culture, and when Lesley and I in October 1983 were in that beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium during the Festival of the Canals, one of the things we delighted in seeing was the laceworkers of Bruges doing their work out on the footpath; men, women with centuries of experience behind them. "When we read the programme we learn a bit about laceworkers. One can't but read those biographical details in the programme without realising that laceworkers enjoy making lace. There's another feature; lace of course is used in another way: to lace someone's coffee is to put spirits in it either with their knowledge or without, and we find from those biographies that there is a very real spirit that permeates laceworkers, and it's a humourous self-mocking spirit. You can't help reading those biographies without realising that those people are very good people who enjoy laughing at themselves, and I suppose there is nothing more valuable for us all than to realise how inherently ridiculous we are, and enjoin in the general laughter about that. It is I think very fortunate that people like that have been brought together through the Arachne organisation that is involved and we all owe a great debt, the whole community not only those of us who are here, to David Collyer who has been the moving spirit in getting this together and we owe a great deal to co-operation which has come from well around the world. "Now, it's always useful in opening an exhibition of some craft or some particular skill if one can claim to have some connection. I can claim to have a connection to lace. I was a judge of the Supreme Court for 16 years and on a formal occasion, the opening of the legal year when the Supreme Court judges went in their robes to St Pauls, in addition to our full bottom wigs, and our Windsor breeches and our black stockings we had a lace jabot (Brian has one got almost the same) and lace cuffs. So I have had the benefit of lace workers over the years. I congratulate everyone who has been involved and with great pleasure I now declare open the International Lace Show and I will now be led inside and symbolically I will lift the chain so that you can all go into see the exhibition without being pole vaulters." - 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/