I'm just coming out of lurkdom to say what an absolute shame that everything "lacey" has been given away. I didn't become interested in lace until 1976 and didn't start making it until 1995. When I went back to Canada to visit my father's family in 2002, I was making lace at may travel pillow, when my aunt remarked, mum used to do that. To which my mother replied, she now remembered helping the family clear out my father's parents things in 1958 and throwing out heaps of lace supplies and books. I had no idea my paternal grandmother had been a lacemaker and would have cherished all those things, I did get a few pieces of lace she had made, but even one set of bobbins would have been cherished. Out of 9 children and 28 grandchildren, I am the only one who has taken up with lacemaking 80 years after my grandmother quit, its such a shame when no one thinks of keeping something for the next generation.
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