I started studying for City & Guilds at Lichfield College in September 1994,
Janice, so lace was definitely going strong in Lichfield then, as I joined a
well established class. Lesley Doram, my tutor, had been one of the C
'guineapigs' when the course was first devised. Both her mother and
Lyn makes the point that airfare was getting cheaper so that there would have
been more exposure to lace. In fact, the first time I saw it was on a vacation
trip to Bruges probably in the late 1960s. I was an adolescent, and there were
girls my age making lace by the canals.
I have always thought
