I was interest to read what has been written about Vologda Lace. I went on the lace tour to Sweden, Finland (Turku OIDFA conference) then to St Petersburg. Whilst we were staying at the hotel in St Petersburg arrangements were made for local lacemakers to come to our hotel to show and sell their lace. I was fortunate enough to be able to by to lace collars before the management of the hotel told the lacemakers to leave and take their lace with them. Later some of the group I was with went to see where the lacemakers worked. Now at the conference in Turku there was a large stand with lots of lace from Russia, so many different pieces of lace you could have bought.
Then a few years later I attended the International Lace Conference in Vamberk, Czech Republic. Yes there was a Russian lace stand again, not so many pieces of lace but still a lovely collection of lace to choose from if you wanted to buy a jacket, hat, bra etc. This time there was just one of the ladies that attended the Turku conference. I was fortunate enough to be able to buy a brochure on Vologda Lace, there are pictures of the very large Russian Pillows, can you imagine, big enough for a large lace pattern to be on it. They are certainly larger than the large Spanish pillow I bought in Spain. These pillows are certainly larger than the pillow that was used by a Russian lace maker that we saw at the Ethnological Museum in St Petersburg. Now at the back of this brochure there are addresses for the Manufacturer - SNOW-FLAKE Vologda Lace Association Plus the address for Exporter - V/O ROSVNESHTORG. I also have a magazine called CAM, published near Moscow. there are 47 pages on how to make Tape and Torchon Lace. There is also a section on dressmaking another on gardening. Even though I can't read the text I could possibly make some of the patterns in the magazine. I do know that some years ago lacemakers in the UK were asked to give freely threads for the lacemakers in Moscow, over a period of time many threads were sent, including embroidery threads as they were having problems getting threads. I do have the book Kloppelspitzen aus Wologda, which shows you the many different laces that are made, not just tape lace. Just wish there was a translation in English for this book. I am sorry this is so long, do hope I have not bored you. Jean in Newbury - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
