I had an opposite experience lately with Czech costumes. I live in Nebraska and there are several small towns that celebrate the Czech culture in weekend festivals. I was just to one such festival a month ago (Clarkson, NE) and was disappointed by the lack of lace that I saw. I made a special attempt to watch the 'queen' contest where girls from around the state were competing for the state Czech heritage queen crown. I saw very little handmade lace on the costumes...though they were lavishly decorated with storebought embroidery. There were two vendors there that had imported Czech items (mainly glassware and garnet jewelry) that I asked about lace. I was directed to a big bin of machine made embroidered eyelet 'lace'...not what I was looking for.
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