One problem that I observe with drawing the young into our deviant lifestyle, is that none of the lace lessons around here are in cities. New York City is very large and there are young people taking all sorts of lessons. One young person of my acquaintance (late 20's, early 30's) was telling me about how she is taking a jewelry making course, learning all sorts of processes involving metal working, buying vast quantities of equipment, patronizing the largest jewelry component store in the world, which is located here, dreaming of the day when she will be able to make a necklace like one she just saw selling for $250. (It is a sign of my veteran status in the craft world, I guess, that I quickly surmised that it would be the most costly $250 necklace, ever.) But it just goes to show you that youngish people still have an excess of time and optimism to acquire arcane skills. However, there is nowhere in New York City that one can take a lace course. The teachers are located outside the city in places where older people live, feel safe, can raise children, and so on. They tend to teach in their homes or suburban adult schools. Impediments to teaching in New York include finding an affordable place to teach, since you rarely clear much money in lace teaching, and hauling all the materials into the city, parking in some place close enough to haul the materials, etc. The young people might have enough time to go to a local class for a few hours on a working night, but they don't have the time or doggedness to negotiate the public transportation out to the suburbs, carrying a lace pillow with them on a bus. Devon
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