Dear lacefriends,
Just back from a wonderful lace class full of new ideas but missing the
time to realize them I had a very short look over my 125 mails and will
answer this one.
The congresses of Deutscher Klöppel Verband are a bit in another way as
those from IOLI. We search our hotels or holiday appartements or what
ever ourselves and aren't all together in one hotel all the time. Over
the years the participants has become more and more. We have more than
4.000 members but we don't have what you call, if I remeber right,
Chapter groups. So the congress is "the event" and for lots of us it is
a family event. there are little lacedays all over the country, I
should say all over Europe meanwhile but the IOLI_meeting and our
congress are comparable. I never took care how many members has taken
part but I think the last years more than 400. What I can tell you for
sure is that for the congress 2005 61 vendors has promised to come (I
couldn't caunt them because I was in the US at that time). Our members
aren't only Germans they come from all of Europe and there are some US
people also. And as in your country some lacemakers are in several
associations, i myself still in 4.
For our competitions we have more than 24 participants, the booklet
with the works from 2005 has 88 pages, ok there are perhaps sometimes
details taken and then one piece needs two pages but for sure not
allways. For sure I can tell you that in 1999 there were 102 pieces
three of them out of competition and 12 weren't in the correct way. So
we had 90 from 13 countries.
Hope this clears a bit the differences, sorry that it has become so
long.
Greetings
ilske
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