Hi
No one has yet said what a good weekend everyone had in Durham at the Lace
Guild Convention. It was held at one of the university colleges. As they were
leaving lots were saying they did not know how it could be bettered next year
because they had had such a good time and the university staff had been so
friendly and helpful. It was announced that next year it is to be held at the
university in Reading.
I went to Beamish on the Friday afternoon trip. It is an open air museum but
we went to look behind the scenes at some of the lace. It was a brand new
building that has been built to house lots of the items not just from Beamish
but museums in the surrounding area. They had a big room that can be used for
classes etc, where the lace was laid out on tables for us to look at. They had
also put pads and pencils next to the lace so that any that was not properly
identified could be commented on by the members. The curator also took two
groups behind the scenes to see the wonderful new storage area. I could have
spent ages looking at the things there. They have a very good collection of
quilts and they were all stored on the shelves with the photograph of each
quilt dangling from the end of the package. Afterwards we walked down the site
to have a cream tea before making our way back.
So that it is not so boring I will send another message out the trip to Bowes
Museum.
Regards
Dianne Derbyshire
sunny Preston, Lancashire
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