Please don't forget the extensive work of Alan Summerly Cole (http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Cole_AS.htm), who corresponded with William Morris and was a close friend of Whistler. He is a seriously neglected, but extremely important author on lace, specializing in the Irish lacemaking industry. He visited Ireland to report on conditions of the lacemakers at the request of the British government, and under his influence, designs at places like Youghal greatly improved. He wrote the chapter on lace in "Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society", which went through 3 English and 1 German edition. Currently I have 49 references in my lace bibliography to his written works on lace, and there are more I don't list on embroidery and tapestry . They all relate to Irish lacemaking, or to catalogs of works at the South Kensington Musem (now the V&A), where he was Assistant Secretary to his father, who was the first director.
> One thing I can't figure out is why the Art Nouveau and the Craftsman > movement which produced Modernista lace in Spain, Aemilia Ars in Italy > and > the laces of the Weiner Werkstatte and the Industrial schools of the > countries > of the Austro-Hungarian Empire seem to have passed by the laces of the > British Isles so completely. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
