Lori the Lacefairy -----Original Message----- I have a watercolour painting of a frail old lacemaker. She is obviously English with her bolster pillow on a wooden tripod stand and her spangled bobbins. She is sitting in front of her cottage with a background of hills and moors, and is working on a broad edging, but the pattern isn't clear. She is wearing a black "bowler" type of hat and with this hat, I was wondering if anyone can tell me which part of England this might be.
I visited your web site and recognised the lady in question. There is yet another version of this lady and it is a coloured pastel portrait done by my husband in in 1971. Sheila Perrin of SMP suggested that he had prints made of it, as she was sure that it would be popular and Holly van Sciver did have some of them for sale some years back. I wrote an article which was published in the October 1995 edition of Lace issue No 80 with Illustrations of the original black & white photograph (which is the same as yours) and which comes from a book published by Odhams Press entitled 'The British Countryside in Pictures'. The book is divided into four sections and the lady in question is depicted in a black & white photograph in the section 'Rural Crafts and Occupations' and is decribed as an old cottage worker from Lavendon, Bucks. My copy of the book was re-printed in 1946, so there was obviously an earlier edition. If you don't have a copy of Lace issue 80 and are interested, I would be happy to send it to you privately. Catherine Barley Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
