deluge the museum with irate e-mails demanding to know whether "no doilies were hurt" in making this art?
Yes, definitely. If they're linen, let's also include a diatribe about how many flax plants were killed to make the fibre ;-)
The artwork I've seen that destroys lace seems to rid the world of the poorest lace first. After all, the artist doesn't want to pay top dollar for good quality lace - the 50 cent doilies at the garage sale are just fine for her purposes. And a huge amount of doilies were produced during the great doily-making age (roughly 1850 to 1950) - let's face it, there is no need for thousands of copies of Coats' Wheat Sheaf Pattern. Let's all agree that the one I made is good enough for a museum and let the rest go. :-)
I would be upset if I saw 18th century Valenciennes being destroyed in that way, or any other top-quality laces. The best way to prevent that from happening is by paying a good price for them, so the artist will buy something else.
This discussion reminds me of what happened when the price of new, primed canvases soared during the 20th century - thousands of poorer-quality paintings - even from as early as the 17th century - were painted over to provide a new canvas backing, so that poor-quality 20th century paintings could go over top.
Adele North Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada)
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