RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Lyn feels that there was very little official fostering of crafts in the US,
as opposed to England, and I think she may be right. Most of these crafts are
not considered heritage items in the US. (Maybe quilting is.)

One thing that is mentioned in Andrea Plum’s article was that there were a
lot of pretty colored publications. Maybe we were reading these publications
in the US. Several people have mentioned women’s magazines, and Golden
Hands.

Andrea Plum also says that “the 1970s craft revival can also be linked to
changes in fine art ideology at this time. Contemporary art in the twentieth
century was largely defined by the rise of conceptualism, which gave
precedence to ideas over making. The art historian Edward Lucie-Smith provided
a critical context for the craft revival in his text. The Story of Craft
(1980) arguing that the renewed interest in craft was a result of changes in
fine at: “there began to appear a hunger for physical virtuosity in the
handing of materials, something which many artists were no longer happy to
provide.””

This also resonates a bit with what people have been saying, for instance
Adele’s observation that people were sick of the 1960s aesthetic.

Devon


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There is a big difference between either side of the Pond. On the Eastern side
there was frequently a relative who made lace.  One knew of its existence,
usually.  It was around.  You might have had to look for it, but it was there.
In the United States, certainly, one didn't know what it was.  No one did it.
That being said, I'm sure someone did it, but so few as to be the exception to
the rule. As travel across the Pond became more common with ordinary people,
exposure increased, and at least two Americans learned the basics in England
and brought the enthusiasm home.  I have heard that Holly would sit on a
corner in downtown Ithaca making lace.
The other difference is that it appears that on the Eastern side, crafts,
especially traditional ones practiced in the area were fostered officially.
There is very, very little of that in the US.
When I'm sitting making lace in America, people ask what I am doing, unless
they are Canadian.  I will never forget working on my travel pillow at
Heathrow and a young woman ask me what kind of lace I was making.  That's the
difference.



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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Ilske Thomsen]

after my memory it was 1987 the year I spent several months in NY.

Ilske

> Am 26.03.2018 um 20:16 schrieb Cynce Williams :
> 
> There was also the US bobbin lace stamp (well 4 stamps) organized by Mary
> McPeak.
> 
> Bu I can’t remember what year—1980’s sometime.
> 
> Cynthia

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Carolyn M Salafia]

My father may have (embraced the melting pot and he sure as heck wanted to be 
sure I never visited the “old country” as second and third cousins were going 
back to marry extended family members. Sicilian chain migration??) but his 
father never really spoke English into the early 1990s. My German grandmother 
was much more like your grandma although it was because she was expected to 
translate the outside world to the family b

Sent from my iPhone and if I'm driving please excuse Siri derived typos. 

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Kim Davis  wrote:
> 
> My observation is that before the 60s America fully embraced the melting
> pot model.  My own Grandmother, for example, was not allowed to learn
> Norwegian.  She was the first in her family  born in the US, but expected
> to only know English.  Preserving heritage from European countries was seen
> by many as a rejection of being American.  After the hippie movement, this
> attitude began to change.  I think there was some desperation to regain
> what was lost by many people.  I also agree with the other factors you are
> looking at.  None of these social shifts happened in isolation.
> 
> Kim
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Re: [lace] Lace revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

Also in the 1950’s I was a Girl Scout Library aide and found *Bobbins of 
Belgium.* Don’t remember the author. The stories of post WWI Belgium were 
horrifying but they were trying to make lace an economic craft in the ’20’s.

Cynthia

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Kim Davis]

My observation is that before the 60s America fully embraced the melting
pot model.  My own Grandmother, for example, was not allowed to learn
Norwegian.  She was the first in her family  born in the US, but expected
to only know English.  Preserving heritage from European countries was seen
by many as a rejection of being American.  After the hippie movement, this
attitude began to change.  I think there was some desperation to regain
what was lost by many people.  I also agree with the other factors you are
looking at.  None of these social shifts happened in isolation.

Kim

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RE: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Lorelei Halley]

Lyn
I did talk with Doris Southard many years ago and she told me that she first 
heard of bobbin lace from an article in a women's magazine. (I don't remember 
which one -- one of the grocery store kind.) She had been a weaver and did many 
other textile crafts, but she was essentially "self-taught".  I also learned 
from her book. And earlier, from her correspondence lessons.
Lorelei

Subject: Fw: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
>From: lynrbai...@supernet.com
>Then there's Doris Southard in Iowa, whose book was published in the '70's. 
>Don't know how or why she learned lace, but maybe it's in her book. It's the 
>one I used to actually learn.  The only such book in any library I looked in, 
>and I am a library person. 

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s - Bath's book and Golden Hands

[Jeri Ames]

The Virginia Bath LACE book and also Golden Hands have been mentioned today.
 Not long ago, I reviewed both on Arachne.  The reviews are easier to read
on the New England Lace Group's home page at www.nelg.us
 
Select Book Reviews from the menu on the Left.
 
When there are no new books I wish to review, the past offers possibilities.
 It is magical that though I did not anticipate Devon's new topic on Arachne,
there are recent book reviews available.
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
 
In a message dated 3/26/2018 2:36:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cyncewilli...@sbcglobal.net writes:

 
 And there was Virginia Churchill Bath�s book *Lace*. She was from the
Chicago
Art Institute.  C

On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:36 PM, DevonThein  wrote:

> Adele makes the interesting point that it was not until the 1970s that it
> began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about
how to make bobbin lace.

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s - mystery book probably...

[DevonThein]

Yes! You are correct. It was Knyppling. I couldn’t remember what it was,
even though I picked up a copy at an estate sale fairly recently.
Devon

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Jo raises some interesting insights.
One thing she mentions is the crafts to leisure aspect. Originally there
seemed to be an ethos that one was practicing a “useful craft”. For
instance, you made a quilt because you needed a bed covering, or a doily
because every well kept house required doilies. At a certain point, I think
that the concept that you were doing this as a “chore” gave way to the
idea that it was a leisure activity that was fun, and might even be a mode of
artistic expression. Mass production really took the steam out of any argument
that you were doing this sort of thing because it was a housekeeping
requirement. I still recall that there was a time when people made their own
clothes to save money. But, when I touched base with a friend who taught
sewing about ten years ago she confirmed that it was impossible to make a
garment for as little money as you could buy one, and that most of her sewing
clients made their own clothes because they had unusual requirements, often
religious in nature.
Jo mentions that women typically left their jobs to have families in the 1950s
and by the 1970s they had empty nests. When I first went to lace meetings in
the 1970s, they occurred on weekdays,  running from 10 in the morning until
about 2:30 in the afternoon, because that is when the kids came home. Later,
in the 1980s and 90s with more women in the work place, this schedule began to
be problematical. But attempts to have lace meetings on the weekends and
weekday evenings didn’t work too well either because women simply had less
leisure time.
Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s - mystery book probably...

[Jeri Ames]

Dear Devon,
 
Perhaps the book to which you refer was Knyppling, 1964, published (in
Swedish) by LTs Forlag in collaboration with the Swedish Lace-Making
Association.  Author was Sally Johanson.
 
It was re-published with the title of Traditional Lace Making in 1974 in the
U.S. in English by Van Nostrand Reinhold; translators were E. and T.W.
Summers.  ISBN: 0-442-30037-9.
 
Sally Johanson was one of the founders of OIDFA, and one of its first
Presidents.
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
 
In a message dated 3/26/2018 1:36:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
devonth...@gmail.com writes:

when I took bobbin lace in the 1970s I asked my
teacher if there was a book I could use and the only one she could offer was
in a Scandinavian language. Although she felt it was better than nothing
because of the photos, I was not really smart enough to be able to take
advantage of it.   Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Maureen]

My belief is that as it was featured in Golden Hands which I think was 
published in UK in 1969 and the older Lacemakers were asked to do  more 
teaching. The WI used to have craft classes I think. Boredom with commercially 
made items and a desire to learn, plus a little more money for hobbies?  Or 
people had progressed from knitting to crochet and wanted to try something 
else?  Not sure when you got it in USA but sure Jeri can answer.

Maureen

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Martha Benedicta Krieg]

Also, Spring Fling happened annually for many years, then every other year
for many more. Last year was the kast full-fledged version, however.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:52 PM H M Clarke  wrote:

> Speaking from my family’s perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child
in
> the 1910s. This was at some local girls’ club in Suffolk. Then she
married
> and had a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly
> widowed in the early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my
> sisters the rudiments of making lace in the 1970s (I was considered too
> young - or too difficult?) which she had never done with her daughters.
>
> I’m wondering whether others of her generation were similarly finding
time
> in retirement to return to lace in the 1960s and 70s thereby kickstarting
> another revival?
>
> Helen who originally lived in lacemaking areas in England before learning
> to make it in Canada!
>
> > On Mar 26, 2018, at 07:59, DevonThein  wrote:
> >
> > I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary
> Fiber
> > Art from Lacemaking Techniques.
> > The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill
> > Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the
> lace
> > revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what
> was
> > happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I
> > would touch on?
> >
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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Adele Shaak]

Maybe a chicken-and-egg thing? The books inspire the students who provide the
market for more books … but what triggered the interest in the 70s in the
first place - I’d bet on a backlash from the super-modern 60s. There’s
only so much bright yellow and lime green Fortrel a body can take. I remember
mini-dresses giving way to midi-dresses and long romantic dresses fostered by
TV shows like Poldark and that Trollope thing that went on and on that I’ve
forgotten the name of. In the US, “Little House on the Praire” as I think
somebody has already mentioned. The back-to-the-land movement, the energy
crisis. Long romantic flowing dresses, full sleeves and cuffs that were just
the place for a bit of lace.

And then the publishers start looking around for other books on the same
topic, and to re-print old books that have lost their copyright, and so on. By
the way, I took a quick look at Margaret Maidment’s book on ABE Books - it
was originally published in 1931 by Pitman & Sons, then in the 50s in the USA
by Charles Branford, and then starting in the 70s by a host of different
companies (Paul Minet, Batsford, plus others) and today it’s available
through a large number of POD houses. It looks like it might have been out of
copyright by the 70s, though that seems a little early.

Adele



> On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:05 AM, DevonThein  wrote:
>
> << Shortly after  I started in England in  1971 I bought a copy of Maidment
> Bobbin Lace Work printed in 1971. >>
>
> So interesting to see this cluster of books being published and republished
in
> the 1970s. But why?

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[H M Clarke]

Speaking from my family’s perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child in the 
1910s. This was at some local girls’ club in Suffolk. Then she married and had 
a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly widowed in the 
early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my sisters the rudiments 
of making lace in the 1970s (I was considered too young - or too difficult?) 
which she had never done with her daughters. 

I’m wondering whether others of her generation were similarly finding time in 
retirement to return to lace in the 1960s and 70s thereby kickstarting another 
revival?

Helen who originally lived in lacemaking areas in England before learning to 
make it in Canada!

> On Mar 26, 2018, at 07:59, DevonThein  wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber
> Art from Lacemaking Techniques.
> The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill
> Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the lace
> revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what was
> happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I
> would touch on?
> 

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Martha Benedicta Krieg]

You will find Mary McPeek who was influential together with Trenna Ruffner
in getting Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux published with her English
translation. GLLGI recently published a compilation of Mary McPeek’s lesson
plans and prickings together with photographs of the pieces worked.  Mary
taught for many years and her students and grandstudents carry on.
Www.gllgi.org

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:46 PM Cynce Williams 
wrote:

> There were four ladies whose patterns were published but I can’t remember
> them all. IIRC Mary McPeak was one and so was Trenna Rufner. Lovely ladies
> and lovely lace. The Great Lakes Lace group had a seminar and several
> European teachers came over. Exciting times.
>
> C
>
> On Mar 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, DevonThein  wrote:
>
> > Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also
> > involved in the lace postage stamps.
> > Devon
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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

There were four ladies whose patterns were published but I can’t remember them 
all. IIRC Mary McPeak was one and so was Trenna Rufner. Lovely ladies and 
lovely lace. The Great Lakes Lace group had a seminar and several European 
teachers came over. Exciting times.

C

On Mar 26, 2018, at 1:26 PM, DevonThein  wrote:

> Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also
> involved in the lace postage stamps.
> Devon
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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

I don’t know for sure, but she had lots of Tonder lace in her book. I think
she also had a pattern by Mary McPeak.

C

On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:37 PM, DevonThein  wrote:

> Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how?

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

And there was Virginia Churchill Bath’s book *Lace*. She was from the Chicago
Art Institute.

C

On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:36 PM, DevonThein  wrote:

> Adele makes the interesting point that it wasn’t until the 1970s that it
> began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about
how
> to make bobbin lace.

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Thanks for mentioning the Torchon Lace Company and the Princess lace pillow.
I would relate this to the early 20th century lacemaking ideas which included
trying to make lace for money, rather than leisure. Examples include the Sybil
Carter missions and Italian Lace School (cut work). But, surely there must
have been people left over from these attempts who were still around in the
1970s. These movements have parallels in Europe such as the Industrie
Feminilli.
Devon

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Yes! Thanks. I just looked it up. 1987. I think Trenna Rufner was also
involved in the lace postage stamps.
Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

St Louis had the Torchon Lace company. They sold bobbins, the Princess lace
pillow and booklets of patterns. We found them in 1904 sources but couldn’t
find any other information about them. The Princess pillow was in the Missouri
Historical Society collection.

Cynthia

On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:13 PM, DevonThein  wrote:

> One correspondent believes that post war immigration of Europeans to the US
> was a factor in the development of lacemaking here.

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

I learned in 1981. Missed a class and learned several grounds from the DMC
book. Also found bobbin lace in the Readers Digest  handwork book. Crown and
Triangle from Doris Southard’s book was originally from Family Circle (or was
it Woman’s Day?) One of those grocery store magazines.

Cynthia


On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Maureen  wrote:

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Anita Hansen]

I consulted my notes which consist of a few writeups of Doris over the years. 
She actually wrote on a 2005 Arachne thread “How I Started lacemaking”
https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/msg14763.html
She was an avid weaver and knitter when she first discovered bobbin lace in 
1950’s Woman’s Day magazine article. After teaching herself, she then 
demonstrated and  taught lace classes locally before eventually being asked to 
do articles and finally a book.
I have a few articles on her from past IOLI Bulletins (including Sept 1970, Jan 
1978, Spring 2009, summer 2006, and spring 2012) if you would like me to scan 
and send you a pdf.
Anita

On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:37 PM, DevonThein 
> wrote:

Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how?
Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Cynce Williams]

There was also the US bobbin lace stamp (well 4 stamps) organized by Mary
McPeak.

Bu I can’t remember what year—1980’s sometime.

Cynthia

On Mar 26, 2018, at 9:59 AM, DevonThein  wrote:

>
> I began to make lace in 1971, but I was not a very objective observer of
what
> was going on and how it fit into any kind of historical context.
> What do people think accounted for and contributed to the surge of interest
in
> lace in 1970s? What should be included?

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Elena Kanagy-Loux]

Just chiming in to say this is all very interesting and I look forward to 
reading this all more carefully later!
Best,
Elena 

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

<< Shortly after  I started in England in  1971 I bought a copy of Maidment
Bobbin Lace Work printed in 1971. >>

So interesting to see this cluster of books being published and republished in
the 1970s. But why?

Devon

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[jo]

I too started in the 1970's as a teenager. Saw a demo on a local nostalgic
summer fair. Being crafty I wanted too try. Found a few books in the local
library, the local craft store happened to have bobbins in stock, improvised
a pillow and got hooked. 

Those days some crafty Dutch magazines published courses or patterns but I
did not have a subscription. In 1978s the LOKK was founded. Mainly by woman
from an era that expelled them from the working class as soon as they
married and then got an empty nest in the 1970's. What also might be of
influence was household chores becoming less elaborate with for example
washing machines resulting in more leisure time.
1914 http://www.kantklosschoolwijdenes.nl/ 
1954 https://internationalorganizationoflace.org/About/aboutus.html 
1982 https://www.oidfa.com/org.html.en 
1983 http://www.deutscher-kloeppelverband.de/index.php/wir-ueber-uns 
 http://www.bkoobd.be
 http://www.laceguild.org 

Comparing these dates, the 1970 seems to mark a transition from "nuttige
handwerken" (1) to crafts and leisure.
(1): an old fashioned Dutch expression for knitting/darning socks and
similar skills. At my primary school the girls still were taught these
"nuttige handwerken" while the boys...

Jo

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Maureen]

Shortly after  I started in England in  1971 I bought a copy of Maidment Bobbin 
Lace Work printed in 1971. 

Maureen
E Yorks UK

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Where did Doris Southard learn to make lace, or how?
Devon

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[DevonThein]

Adele makes the interesting point that it wasn’t until the 1970s that it
began to be possible to buy books published by mainstream publishers about how
to make bobbin lace.
She observes that her lace club actually started in 1955 but had huge
impediments due to the lack of  instruction and books. The IOLI also dates
from the 1950s. However, when I took bobbin lace in the 1970s I asked my
teacher if there was a book I could use and the only one she could offer was
in a Scandinavian language. Although she felt it was better than nothing
because of the photos, I was not really smart enough to be able to take
advantage of it.
Then Kaethe Kliot published her book in 1973 which was a very mind expanding
book providing a lot of inspiration, although, again on my part, I really
couldn’t learn from it. But the photos of her making a lace pillow,  and her
contemporary lace showed what was possible. Also, I enjoyed the photos from
the early twentieth century with lots of bobbins and more traditional
patterns.
Another source material for me was the Anchor Manual given to me by the mother
of a friend, my copy dating from 1970. Alas this was another book that I
tried, but failed to learn from. Nothing really worked for me except the
individual instruction that came with materials, tools  and patterns.
Obtaining the materials and tools was a major factor then. Fortunately
Gunvor’s mother ran a lace supply business in Tonder, so we never wanted for
these. I don’t think I could ever have taught myself from a book. It was
hard enough learning without having to overcome the obstacles involved in
getting bobbins.
Devon


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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Maureen]

Sorry, I forgot to crop.

Maureen

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Maureen]

And I should, of course, mention needlelace as Nenia Lovesey wrote her first 
book in the late 1970s, she signed my copy at a lace day in Essex in 1982.  
Although I didn't try needlelace until after then.

Maureen
e Yorks UK.


> On 26 Mar 2018, at 17:42, Maureen  wrote:
> 
> I too started lacemaking in The early 70s but I had seen it in Golden Hands 
> and found a local handicraft group that were putting a class on.  Well I was 
> going for embroidery classes at the time, but moved over to the lace class, 
> supposedly for one term but which continued for a lot longer, to learn lace. 
> Then the County Adult Education classes, I think, started in the mid 70s but 
> also Doreen Wright wrote a book  on lacemaking and the Lace guild was started 
> in 1976.  Suppliers then found that people wanted bobbins, I bought my first 
> ones from Doreen Fudge who was at Luton Museum, and then lace days started 
> which I believe encouraged more Lacemakers, which encouraged more classes.  I 
> was also a member of IOLI about 1974 and only didn't rejoin when the Lace 
> Guild started.  I started to teach lacemaking when the local teacher had a 
> waiting list but didn't have enough hours or days in The week to start 
> another class, but that was about 1980 I think.   And it was very much a cas!
 e !
> of being one step ahead of the students at the time because there were gaps 
> in the beginning laces I had somehow skipped!
> 
> Incidentally I learnt to knit whilst in primary school, was taught 
> dressmaking at school and by my mother in law,  and taught myself to crochet 
> in 1970 as I wanted to crochet myself a dress.  Suffice to say it was started 
> at the top and very short!
> 
> Maureen Bromley
> E Yorks UK
> 
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>From: lynrbai...@supernet.com
>Sent: Mar 26, 2018 9:51 AM
>To: Devon Thein <dmt11h...@aol.com>
>Subject: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s
>
>Dear Devon, read your email the first time I woke up at 6.  Now 9:20 and my 
>coffee is brewing.  Decadent hours.  I was thinking about lacemaking in the 
>US, and possibilities as to why it became 'popular' in the '70's.  I think one 
>reason is the refugees after WWII brought it with them.  And don't forget 
>Susan Wenzel took lace classes while her husband was stationed in England.  I 
>don't know about California, where lace is amazingly popular, but I bet there 
>was some kind of impetus.  I know that a lady named Betty, last name unknown, 
>a lacemaking British transplant to Atlant, GA was a driving force in that 
>area.  Then there's Doris Southard in Iowa, whose book was published in the 
>'70's. Don't know how or why she learned lace, but maybe it's in her book. 
>It's the one I used to actually learn.  The only such book in any library I 
>looked in, and I am a library person. I don't think the Bicentennial had much 
>to do with it.  But I do think the back-to-the-earth movement would ha!
 ve a big part.  Anyhow, that's my two cents.  lrb
>
>"My email sends out an automatic  message. Arachne members,
>please ignore it. I read your emails."

Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, presently in the Phoenix, Arizona 
valley, where the weather is boring.  Sunny, warm, dry, light breeze, shorts 
and sandals weather every day.

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Adele Shaak]

Hi Devon:

The lace club I belong to (Vancouver Lace Club) started in 1955 but it was
slow going at first because the ladies could only get instruction from a
lacemaker who lived up the coast  and only visited Vancouver once a year, to
demonstrate lace at the Pacific National Exhibition. She would bring patterns
with her and show the ladies how to make them. Books on lacemaking were rare.
Finding a new book on lacemaking - any book at all - was a cause for
celebration. Threads and bobbins were ordered from Theo Brejaart in Rotterdam
- in this era before credit cards you had to be really determined to learn and
to get your supplies.

Books:

Doreen Wright: 1971 “Bobbin Lace Making"
Pam Nottingham: 1976  “Technique of Bobbin Lace"
Doris Southard: 1977 “Bobbin Lace Making
Elsie Luxton: 1979 “The Technique of Honiton Lace"

They were published by big publishers whose books your local bookstore could
order. Once you’re into lacemaking, you find all the other avenues but only
these larger publishers got their books into the libraries where the general
public could find them - it was the picture on the cover of “Technique of
Bobbin Lace” that drew me to lacemaking in 1982.  I had never heard of it
before, and never seen any handmade lace. Earlier books that showed lacemaking
techniques were very basic (Th. de Dillmont) and were also difficult for
people, like many North Americans, who needed to get all their knowledge and
instruction from the book. In the early books the author tended to think that
the student had seen bobbin lace before and just needed a bit more
information.

Hope somewhere in all this is a nugget you can use.

Adele Shaak


> Sue, your observation about taking a class in an adult school in England is
> interesting. I think there was more of that in Great Britain than in the US
at
> the time. But, Holly van Sciver took an adult school class in England while
> there for a college semester abroad. Eventually she was a large spur to the
US
> movement by sharing her skills through teaching, bobbin making, and
vending,
> so arguably the adult schools of England were instrumental in the
development
> of the lace movement in the US.
> Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Maureen]

I too started lacemaking in The early 70s but I had seen it in Golden Hands and 
found a local handicraft group that were putting a class on.  Well I was going 
for embroidery classes at the time, but moved over to the lace class, 
supposedly for one term but which continued for a lot longer, to learn lace. 
Then the County Adult Education classes, I think, started in the mid 70s but 
also Doreen Wright wrote a book  on lacemaking and the Lace guild was started 
in 1976.  Suppliers then found that people wanted bobbins, I bought my first 
ones from Doreen Fudge who was at Luton Museum, and then lace days started 
which I believe encouraged more Lacemakers, which encouraged more classes.  I 
was also a member of IOLI about 1974 and only didn't rejoin when the Lace Guild 
started.  I started to teach lacemaking when the local teacher had a waiting 
list but didn't have enough hours or days in The week to start another class, 
but that was about 1980 I think.   And it was very much a case !
 of being one step ahead of the students at the time because there were gaps in 
the beginning laces I had somehow skipped!

Incidentally I learnt to knit whilst in primary school, was taught dressmaking 
at school and by my mother in law,  and taught myself to crochet in 1970 as I 
wanted to crochet myself a dress.  Suffice to say it was started at the top and 
very short!

Maureen Bromley
E Yorks UK

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RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Devon Thein]

Sue, your observation about taking a class in an adult school in England is
interesting. I think there was more of that in Great Britain than in the US at
the time. But, Holly van Sciver took an adult school class in England while
there for a college semester abroad. Eventually she was a large spur to the US
movement by sharing her skills through teaching, bobbin making, and vending,
so arguably the adult schools of England were instrumental in the development
of the lace movement in the US.
Devon

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Re: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s

[Sue Harvey]

I too started making lace in the 70s my interest was sparked purely by the 
chance sighting of lace making classes starting at our local night school and 
at the fact that I liked anything " crafty" after the first lesson I was well 
and truly "hooked" 
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK 

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