How right you are. Time moves, and so do the passions of lacemakers. Right at the moment it's Binche Binche Binche or die. Would you be amused by this quote from a beautiful catalogue published in 1988 by the Walters Art Museum on the occasion of a lace exhibition there: "... Binche...never fully evolved in design...but now being revived as esoteric studies for accomplished amateur lacemakers."
What? You're outraged? But compare the "fully evolved" (i.e. gorgeous) Thomas Lester designs with the best of the Binche, and you may think that the writer of the above quote perhaps had a point (in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I was the curator of that show and the author of the catalogue). -- Aurelia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
