I missed the beginning of the piece but DH believed it was a small village south of Prague called Kornikov or something similar.
Koniakow, south of Krakow. The entire village is involved in the production of crocheted lace and has been for about 100 yrs. The technique is a bit like Irish crochet in that it's pieced crochet (motifs are made first and then joined) and often 3-dimensional, but the motifs themselves are different, as are the the joins -- more like small motifs than ground. And all of it is much coarser than most of of the Irish Crochet so the priest was right -- not something that would be very comfortable (but then I fel uncomfrotable just looking at thongs, no matter what they're made of <g>), but because of the thickness, not because of stiffnes; they use very soft thread, just thick.
All of Poland was having a bit of a giggle over this "lace war", when it first broke out (a couple of months ago) at least in part because, in the communist-ruled (but very strict wehn it came to morals) Poland, all the lace was being made for church and house use (lots of doilies, tablecloths, etc). It took church-ruled Poland (but more democratic and money-driven) to produce lace for strip-tease clubs etc.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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