I googled Tinker Swiss Cottage and visited their website - impressive house. Looking forward to any reports of their lace exhibit; comment on the beautiful solid wood staircase - shown in the photo gallery - also welcome.
On Feb 12, 2008 5:24 PM, Janice Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
