Dear Lacemakers,
while searching for something else entirely, (isn't that just the
way?), I happened on this webpage about Thelma Goldring:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/belfast/A2109629.shtml
This lady makes all sorts of exquisite Irish lace, and won a Churchill
Fellowship which she used to study connections between Irish and
Venetian lacemaking. There are photos of many different kinds of
Irish lace, all made by herself. Also, there is a link so that you
can listen to a radio programme about her and her study tour. The
photos can all be viewed in both enlarged and close up forms. (And
then there are a couple of comments that one of the pieces is
mislabelled, and is really tatting - this time, they could be right!)
At the foot of the page, there are some useful links, including one to
the Sheelin Irish Lace Museum, with more pictures you can enlarge, and
a virtual tour. It looks well worth a visit.
In the past, I've never been very interested in Irish lace, but now
I'm stunned by the beauty of it all.
With best wishes from
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.,
where it's raining hard,
but blessedly a little cooler, at last).
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