I've got a new email address. In case any arachneans need to contact me,
please use lacerob...@gmail.com
The sad news is that Louise Colgan's father-in-law passed away last week. He
was in a nursing facility, so neither Louise nor Sean were able to be with him,
but he went peacefully in his
I know there are lacemakers in New Zealand, and they have a Lace Guild there,
too. I have met one NZ Lacemaker â last year at the IOLI Convention.
I donât know how far back the lacemaking goes, but I would think it is much
like here in Australia.
This sounds like a very interesting project.
A quick google search reveals that the Magdalen laundry existed in NYC as
Janice says and that many people sent their laundry there. I think one would
have to access the Memoirs of Harriet Starr Cannon, the leader of the house, to
find out about lacemaking since recent scholarship tends to
I have just finished reading a new book called The Girls with No Name by
Serena Burdick. The novel is based on some facts about the House of Mercy, in
New York that was run by Catholic nuns for "fallen women". Â I had heard of
the Catholic laundries in Ireland where women worked basically as
