Hi Jeri, Wow ! That was the feeling I sat back with after reading about your vision and reasons for a Lace & Embroidery Resource Center (herafter shortened to LERC) in America.
This is so encompassing, I have trouble comprehending it. That might well be why so few responded last time you wrote about it - it exeeds the imagination of us mere mortals :) Personally I would probably never visit or use LERC, but simply knowing that it existed would be enough for me. As I see it, it can be done two ways. Either you/we do it ourselves; raise the necessary funding and create LERC according to your vision. That would probably be the ideal situation, but not very realistic. Otherwise you have to involve as many parties as possible (existing textile departments and museums, guilds, commercial interests, government funds, etc.) and compromise, compromise, compromise. This is more realistic, but could end up very far from your vision. I am not familiar with the museums in America. How much of what you propose already exists in pieces in museums across the country ? Would it make sense to contact these museums and make the LERC a meta-museum (a joint-venture between the museums to create a resource they all have access to, to help and supplement the individual textile departments). Possibly this could form a good part of the funding, and they may not be too picky about the charter of LERC as long as they get the needed external textile expertise, they opted in for. This could in time grow into the LERC you envision ? I wonder if Arachne as a group has the manpower, expertise and will to bring this vision into being ? I am pretty sure we don't have the money, but I know we have the heart for it if we choose so. Yours, still awed by your vision Katja Gamby in Copenhagen, Denmark -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator, Dept. of Comp. Sci., U of Copenhagen PGPid: 0xC9C5CF2B Fingerprint: 8A0A7428D22429C67F0B-98205A7498CBC9C5CF2B - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
