Dear Fellow Spiders around the world,
I just had to share with you all my little exploration yesterday at the Estonian National Museum which has free admission on Fridays. The museum is only 3 blocks away & my eldest son & MIL came with me to see the place.
There was a lovely display of costumes on the top floor & I saw GOLD (at least to me it looked like gold) bobbin lace on 2 of the manequins, & some crocheted, knitted & several pieces of bobbin lace made with thick thread, probably for durability. There was some fine drawn-thread work as well as a lot of beautiful embroidery.
I also saw a pedlar's chest with lengths of machine lace & ribbons, a beautiful beaded belt & other things that you would expect to find being sold by a travelling pedlar.
Before we left the museum we went back into the main exhibit hall on the ground floor & I realized that I hadn't seen what was along the back wall. Well, there in a glass case was some small pieces of BL with an old photo of a lacemaker, & a bunch of bobbins (each about 7 inches long & pointed like large honiton bobbins) & hanging from a piece of lace which was pinned to the wall of the display case.
The museum doesn't allow photos to be taken, but I hope that I may be able to get a closer look at the lace after October when Lia Looga, a lacemaker I met in April & who lives in Tartu, holds a display of "Bobbin Lace Ornaments" at the Museum.
Take care & keep making lace,
Pene Piip
who is slowly adjusting to life in Tartu, Estonia.
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