Hi Liz,
You have hit the nail on the head with your reply to Julia. The modern
life style makes it very difficult for people to get out to classes in
the evening anymore. People work very long hours, and have to continue
to work even when they are married and a family comes along. No time
for
Liz and Spiders,
I tend to share the worries about a possible decline in lace - witness the
suppliers who have *gone under* over the last fifteen years! When I think
back 20/22 years, I was the Events Secretary for both Essex and Suffolk Lace
Makers, (at differing times, but bobbing back and
I have found in recent years that traders are more and more supplying the
needs of other crafts i.e., patchwork, cross stitch, card making etc., and
also people attending lacedays appear to be participating in other craft
taking along not a lace pillow but sewing, knitting, crochet amongst others.
there is an interesting catalogue for sale on ebay from 1910 - Lace Making
Requisites - a nice comparison from 93 years ago - was lacemaking as a hobby
popular then?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2561201424category=221
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jenny barron
Sunny Scotland
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Dear Lacemakers,
What a curriculum! So many from our family are on the faculty -
congratulations to you all.
Because people overseas who are coming to the U.S. may not be
I just checked my copy, and although I hadn't noticed it
before, I see that my copy has ripples too... too bad.
Clay
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Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:11 PM
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Dear Julia,
The Embroidery Guild of America is having the same problems as the lace
society. There is a dangerous decline in hand sewing and bobbin lace
making.
If you would really like to ingratiate yourself with all your fellow lace
makers and needle craft cousins, tell them how to reverse
As publicity chairman for the IOL convention, I was given the info that we
have, if I recall, 1628 members. Recently Gunnel Teitel turned over to me a
hoard of clippings from all over the country about lace over the last 25 years.
Many of them were reports of IOL Conventions. It was quite
Carol and the spiders (that always sounds like a rock band),
I've been thinking about this all afternoon now and feeling really rotten to
be Casandra standing the market place here.
What I will say is that I think there are more events because the average age
of lacemakers is such that they
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Julia,
Do you want to know about lace growth only in the UK or expand it to
cover world wide?
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie living in Denver
I for one would like to hear about how the craft is doing world-wide
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Even my local guild, of which I am the only founder member remaining after
20+ years, has expanded its criteria to include other crafts to survive,
though our laceday is still going (fairly) strong.
Diana
Just my 2 cents' worth:
Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I don't think lace is declining so
much as that it is in the downswing of a pendulum-like movement.
I find that all hobbies and crafts are subject to the same variations.
Remember how popular knitting was in the 1980s? In Vancouver in
My copy to has rippled pages too - shame :(
Diana (Northamptonshire, UK)
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I wonder if sales of lace stuff on ebay is any indication about what's going
on?
A year or so ago, anything lace sold well, especially books and bobbins of
any kind. Now books like Pam Nottingham's 'Technique of Bobbin Lace' and
Bridget Cooks' 'Torchon Lace Workbook', 'Modern Lace Design' by
For a long time it has been very difficult for a girl to express a wish
to do anything feminine. It has been OK if girls want to fly down mountain
cliffs at 60 miles an hour on a bicycle, but absolutely not OK if they want
to learn to crochet.
The fortunate flip side of this is that boys are
I think for lacemaking to take off as a hobby it needs to be sold as
enjoyable and trendy to young people in their 20's and 30's. I think a
marketing
campaign on MTV or in the kinds of magazines young people with
discretionary income
read might be a good idea. Knitting is becoming very trendy in
As an almost 40 year old mother of 2, I'm just getting reacquainted with
my pillows (I've done dribs and drabs over the years, but never had big
chunks of childless-time to work on bigger projects). This is the first
time in almost 8 years that I've had 'quiet time during my day to
tackle
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I am a younger lacemaker, in my early 30's, and I have to admit,
with being back at school, and working and homelife and and and..
most of my handcrafts have to be portable.
Heather is right on here for my life as well. I do bobbin lace and take
classes
Have you checked out www.Bookfinder.com? I bought my copy a little while ago,
but it has water damage, as well as other issues. As I recall I opted for the
cheapest one, and there were others at various levels of
intactness/decrepitude with an appropriate sliding price scale. If you are
Heather wrote:
Now, I recognize that I've got my schedule packed to the gills, but
most people I know my age do as well and if it cant go in a backpack, it's
not an option.
Now that's a thought... I have two travel pillows that pack up like a
small bag and fit into tote bags but how about
A supplier at last year's OIDFA Congress had a pillow that was part of a
backpack. It was really neat and compact. I don't remember who the
supplier was - I think Finnish or Danish. Does any one else remember?
,
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Janice Blair wrote:
Now that's a
On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 07:58 US/Eastern, Jim Deb Bender wrote:
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Dear Liz and all,
It is true that suppliers are getting fewer as they grow older, but you have
left out one major Lace Fair - at least, I think it's major, being up in the
North like me - and that's The Great Northern Not Just Lace Fair - known to
its friends as Pudsey, as that's where it takes
A couple of years ago I was sitting guarding our exhibits and a CG
display, getting on with my lace while offering to let all comers have a go
at the Springett snake on the other pillow, when I spotted a man looking on
with a certain amount of interest. So I suggested he had a go at the snake,
At 04:57 PM 9/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
...I was of the opinion that lacemaking was growing, at least
here in the states. Maybe that is wishful thinking on my part but our
local groups are growing, ...
I missed our last guild meeting but was told there were ten newbies
trying BL for the first
Sorry to write to the list, but I will keep it short.
We are here in Aus, and I completely forgot to bring any contact details for you (what
a dummy!). Please contact me at this e-mail address (grovel,grovel).
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Janet Banks (temporarily in Perth, WA)
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