I read this week a filler in the paper that said "all the famous lacemakers
were men."
Now I don't know famous lacemakers nor if they were men or women, but I had
always thought that the men associated with lace were more like middlemen.
They would buy from a lacemaker and sell to the wealthier lords and ladies in
the communities, towns, and cities.
Some of the men associated with lacemaking were designers, and one of them (Thomas Lester) could be considered famous, if only in lacemaking circles... I'd write the newspaper a scathing letter and find something more reliable to read on the "daily bread" basis; if it's "all wet" on one point, it's likely to be so everywhere else as well :)
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Tamara P Duvall
Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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