Below is part of an email I received today regarding a lace exhibit at Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford. This is one of the places on the Rockford tour on Wednesday. I have no idea what this exhibition wll be like but thought I would pass on the information to those of you who were considering taking the local tour. Janice
Subject: lace exhibit at Tinker Swiss Cottage Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum would like to welcome the 55th Annual International Old Lacers, Inc. convention to Rockford, Illinois. The museum will be featuring an exhibit on Victorian laces through August 2008. We hope that convention participants will be able to visit the museum and share in this legacy of nineteenth century laces. The exhibit, "A Place of Lace", will cover a brief history of lace using examples from the Tinker family collection. An exhibit will be installed in the Tinker Visitor Center as well as incorporated into the tour of the historic Cottage. The tour will place lace within the social context of the nineteenth century and describe how it was used by the Tinker family. Robert Tinker built the Swiss Cottage in 1865 basing his home on those he had seen in Europe in 1862. The Tinker family lived in the Cottage until 1942, leaving the house and grounds to the Rockford Park District and the contents to trustees in the hopes it would be shared with the community. The Cottage opened to the public for tours in 1943. Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA www.jblace.com http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/ www.landoflincolnlacemakers.com Check convention news here for daily teacher/class info updates!! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
