When I was in Venice in 2005, I went to the Island of Burano and visited the
Lace Museum there. We were very fortunate to see 3 ladies of vastly
different ages making Needle lace in the last room. A lot of the lace that
is on sale at the different places was machine made. That is not to say
that hand made lace cannot be purchased there. I was on limited time so
possibly did not see any. I also didn't see any coloured lace, so I would
like to know where about coloured lace can be seen and purchased as we are
going back there later this year. (November).
Ann in Australia.
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I hope to leave next Friday for a trip that will take me to Venice,
Dubrovnik, Kotor (Montenegro), Saradne (Albania), Crete (Aghios
Nikolaos), Kusadasi (Turkey), Mykonos, and Athens.
The island of Pag has a major needlelace school. Pag lace looks rather
like Punto in Aria or Reticella--ornate geometric array of bars covered
in buttonhole stitches, all done in sewing-thread (okay, a bit thicker,
but not much). It's beautiful lace and perhaps they sell it on the
mainland. I'm not sure which part of the former Yugoslavia inherited
Pag, but I think it was Bosnia/Herzegovina.
The island of Burano is part of the Venice-area islands and is famous
for its needlelace, too. What I've seen was heavier than the Pag lace,
but it was more modern -- figural and colored rather than geometric and
white. Really nice, too.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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