Like Sue, those of us who live in Suffolk are also greatly spoiled for access to lace suppliers, Suffolk Lacemakers organise 5 lace days each year and we have easy access to those held in the neighbouring counties of Essex, Cambridge and Norfolk. In fact you can have a hard job deciding on which ones to attend as you could probably get to at least one a month.
We also run a bring and buy service for members (you can bring along and sell lace items that you no longer require and the group get 10% of the sale price), at last weekends lace get-together we made around �40 for the group through this facility, tickets for the day were sold out and our visiting suppliers were more than happy with their sales for the day too).
Reading about the lack of facilities that other lacemakers face really makes me appreciate what we have here and I try to remind my students of how lucky we are and encourage them to make use of what we have - so that we don't lose them.
Nicky in Suffolk UK
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:19:55 -0000 From: "Maureen Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [lace] Lace Shops
Patty and all spiders, re" no lacemaker lives in lace heaven" well I think
in Norfolk we do, we have at least eight lace days in the surrounding area
that we can attend plus we have really good access to most of the suppliers
in the UK via phone or e-mail, we also have a non profit making shop at the
Norfolk Lacemakers once a month, so I consider we are very fortunate and
feel so sorry for our sisters (and a few brothers) across the big pond that
do not have the same.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Noelene wrote: ... The lace fairs in the UK and Europe people talk about seem well patronised, we have nothing like that here in Australia. So keep your emails coming in about new books and products, otherwise we'll never know what's available at least by mail order!
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