At which museum is this being featured? I saw some of them when I was at Stanford U touring the Hoover Tower. Lorri ----- Original Message ----- From: Alice Howell<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lace@arachne.com<mailto:lace@arachne.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:23 PM Subject: [lace] museum exhibit - flour sacks
I just opened my paper and read about a display of flour sacks stitched for Presiden Hoover by people in Belgium years ago. It's the 50th anniversary of the museum, and they are celebrating with this exhibit. A few quotes and story summary from the full page article: follows. Framed, beautifully embroidered and painted cotton flour sacks are temporarily replacing the usual art on the walls of ... the boyhood home of Herbert Hoover. Several hunderd of the sacks were given to Hoover by Belgians in gratitiude for his work in providing famine relief to their country during World War I. The (relief) commission shipped nearly 700 million pounds of flour to Begium. Over 14 million empty flour sacks were created by the famine relief. (The commission) controlled where they went and what was done with them, for two reasons: Fear that the good flour would be taken out and replaced with inferior flour, and since cotton wadding was used in munitions, they wanted to keep them out of the hand of the enemy. They accountd for every single one of them. The sacks were distributed to professional schools, convents, artists and public sewing workrooms. They were used for clothing and to make a wide variety of items...... Women embroidered, stenciled or painted (several hundred) sacks, sometimes using threads from their own clothing, or sewing in swathes of Belgium lace. One of the sacks on display is embellished with a delicate white lace swatch and white embroidery. --------------------------------- Now...I MUST go see this exhibit, on only for one month, and see just how many have lace on them, what kind, etc etc. Anyone else who is in the Newberg, Oregon area during May might stop by. They're open 1-4 Wed through Sunday. Signs on the highway point to the turn. It's a block off the main highway. It's been several years since I stopped by, so now is the time. Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- whose Beds fan is 25 percent done. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
