Hello Dagmar! I believe that your best bet on researching lace in Minnesota would be to do a little (on-line?) research about when that part of Minnesota was settled and by whom. Armed with that information, you can then research the lace of their country of origin. Another way to "detect" the old laces made there would be to find antique lacemaking equipment and from that determine what kind of lace was being made. But this method would take quite some time, I'm sure, so you're probably better off with your research method!
Good luck to you! Sounds like a fun project! Clay in oppressively hot and humid Virginia... The kind of weather that makes the decision, "to garden, or to make lace?" a really easy one!! Clay Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: Dagmar Machyckova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/20/2005 3:12:08 PM > Subject: [lace] History of lace in US - help > > Dear Spiders, > > I was asked yesterday to do a demonstration of lacemaking at a Heritage Festival next Saturday and since the backgroung of my lace knowledge is in European history I'd need some help getting up to speed on the american. > > I'll be in a log cabin with the "original settlers" so I'd need some kind of information about what was the status of lace in US early on when the settlers brought it with them from Europe. > > Any write ups, Internet articles or anything will be helpful, > > > > Thank you very much, > > Dagmar in Minnesota (formerly of Prague, Czech Republic) > > > > --------------------------------- > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
