Zelie Martin was the mother of nine children, four of whom died in infancy.
In addition to dealing with the death of her children, she had to cope with
a great deal of financial stress, family illness, and so on.
She entered a lacemaking school in Alencon as a young adult and in 1851 went
into
A while ago I helped Janis Savage and her friend Kim Lieberman work out
a grid for Kim's lace sculpture project and I have just received this
message from Janis.
Hello Brenda,
The exhibition of lace, for which you helped me work out the grid, is
finally on show. You can see the article
Try this link:
http://www.sttherese.com/Parents.html
Here's a quote from the piece about Selie Martin:-
she had a tremendous enthusiasm for life and was a highly skilled lace
maker and an astute business woman; yet her sights were firmly set on
Heaven. She was a great letter writer, and her
I haven't yet found out if any of Zelie's lace is still to be seen, but I
was flabbergasted by this site about point d'alencon
http://www.honfleur-magazine.fr/info-villes/actualite-regionale/30-06-2008/orne-la-dentelle-du-grand-art-et-toute-une-maitrise.html,
which says, among other things, that
On 21 Oct 2008, at 8:39, Sister Claire wrote:
among other things, that a square centimeter of lace represented
eight hours of work!
Isn't it amazing? And the Sisters at the convent in Argentan, who
still make needle lace, told me that Argentan takes even longer to
make than Alencon.
I have always thought that St Catherine was the patron saint of
lacemakers?
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Andrew is a patron of lacemaking, too.
The thing about patron saints is that it is not doctrine and anyone can make
any saint patron of anything.
I chose Zélie Martin as the patron for my lacemaking because we have a
couple of things in common besides lacemaking.
sr. Claire
On Tue, Oct 21,
Hi All,
As well as those on the list, maybe St Andrew should be added!He is the
patron saint of netters, which could be loosely allied to lacemaking.His
day is November 30th, just after St Catherine's day - Nov 25th. (Although
I was Anglican for the whole of my life, I converted to
I'm trying to find the schedule of the next events for the British Columbia
lace groups. Is there anyone on line that knows? Or knows where it might be
listed? With the IOLI site down I don't know where to look next.
Thanks,
Alice in Oregon
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Dear Lacemakers,
There are so many occupations in so many nations, that probably some have
few (or no) Patron Saints.
Isn't it wonderful that lacemakers have so many clearly defined Patron
Saints!
We've written about St. Catherine of Alexandria on Arachne before, and you
can research on
From Thomas Wright's Romance of the Lace Pillow:
'Catterns was observed chiefly in north Northants and Beds; in the greater
part of lace-land, however, the principal holiday was Tanders (St Andrew's
Day) November 30th.'
Diana in Northants
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And your point would be?
Sr Claire
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Dear Arachneans and my few close friends among you,
I choose not to relate a pleasurable craft with nailed, burnt, or
otherwise tortured people, all for the sake of superstitions from
With all due respect, Debora, I don't understand what you are trying to
say. I believe that you stated your feelings clearly, but are you
suggesting that the list not talk about the history that is associated
with lace? It is certainly a valid subject for discussion on the list,
and those
Yes, we do make cattern cakes for St Catherine on November 25th and very
tasty they are too.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Please make a note that the Land of Lincoln have removed their website, it
having served the purpose of promoting the IOLI convention this year. If you
know of anyone who has a link to the site, please ask them to remove it.
Thanks,
Janice
Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of
Dear Clay,
Oops! You are right. The book starts with November 25th. My mind was
elsewhere as I wrote (an unsuccessful attempt to multi-task). Must focus
more.
Apologies to all.
Jeri Ames
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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Wow, thank you again. I now have some nice Venetians.
Brian and Jean
from Cooranbong, Australia
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Judging from this website:
http://wmboothdraper.com/TapeLace/tapelace.htm
it seems to be a kind of twill tape with a chevron pattern, used for
binding the edges of uniforms, etc.
It doesn't seem to be something worth strutting about, and certainly
isn't what we would call lace.
Adele
North
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