My DH brought home the Wall Street Journal today and on the front page there is an article about lacemaking in India. The article is about a lady called Aruna Seth who has set up workshops for women to make lace. Lacemaking was brought to the area by nuns who set up workshops for lacemaking for unmarried women. Ms. Seth reaslied that there was a trained workforce of woment who had married and no longer allowed to work for the nuns. The article talks about needlelace but the photo on the inner page shows bobbin lacemakers at their pillows. There is a description of working needlelace but later in the article it talks about the sound of the bobbins, so I assume they make both types of lace in southern India. She sells the lace for the women from $14 to $74. The lace is carried by a couture linen shop in New York. Mr Forster who owns the shop sells "a linen guest towel trimmed with lace for $75 retail, a set of six cocktail napkins with lace trim priced at $325 and a lac e luncheon set, which includes 12 placemats and 12 napkins for $3,400." Yes the comma is in the right place. There is a little on the history of lace making in the article quoting Santina Levy and a note at the bottom says WSJ.com subscribers can see more of Ellen Byron's photographs of Indian lacemakers at WSJ.com/OnlineToday. I did find the site but as I am not a subscriber, that was as far as I went. Janice
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