First of all, hello to you all! I'm back from nearly 2.5 months in France, and I'm exhausted! DH says that we spent 73 days there and only had 3 days under 32 degrees centigrade, but most days over were in the high thirtuies! We also had water restrictions , just to make us feel at home, as we have severe restrictions in Melbourne this year. Anyway, I won't say anything about our trip as we didn't do anything lacy, and we didn't go anywhere much either, just stayed with my parents and visited firends and family. I did find a lovely little needlecraft shop in Toulon, in the south of France, and the lady who owns the shop is a lacemaker. She was making a beautiful big torchon/cluny rectangular mat. Unfortunately, she's not on the Internet. If you live in that region, she does sell lacemaking supplies.
A few days ago, Tamara wrote: >"... really good colour photo of it is on p.91 (also a sepia one of the >original drawing?) The title of that page is "Les jardins nous >attendent" (the gardens we visit? have visited?) but that's not >translated either. The caption to the picture on p 93 -- Gaelle (with 2 >dots over the first e and not translated) -- I take to be the name of >the model, since the face and the fan take up about equal space :)... Tamara, the translation is "The gardens are waiting for us", not "we visit" , and yes, Gaelle is a person's name, so either the model or the designer. I've got Jean Claude's book, and it's lovely, having both the history and the techniques (in multi colours, as they usually do in France), so even non-French speakers could pick up the basic techniques, but I agree that being able to read the text is the best. I love the effect of the multicoloured lace. I might even try it one day... http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
