Dear Lace Fan Lovers, Before Christmas, here is a book that you may want to put on your gift list: "A Touch of Dutch - Fans from the Royal House of Orange-Nassau" By Helene Alexander (The Fan Museum, London) and Fransje Hovinga-van Eijsden A fan exhibit catalogue Pub. Feb. 2008 by The Fan Museum Paper cover, size approx. 8" x 6", 176 pp. Cost in July 2008, in The Netherlands, was 15 euros On the lace tour, we stopped at a lovely historic property. It had a separate building featuring exhibit space, which was devoted to lace - new lace. Memorable was the display of red lace hats. In one area was a portrait of Queen Emma, mother of Queen Wilhelmina (1880-1962). Portraits of Queen Emma have always appealed to me because she is always wearing lace! There was a member of museum staff available, so I privately inquired about the portrait. He told me she was much loved, and she changed her laces three times a day! I tucked away that tidbit of information to share some day on Arachne. In the gift shop, I found this book. Since anything published by The Fan Museum, has been of interest to me, and to some of the Arachnes, and since I've not seen a review in any of the lace organizations' bulletins, I want to share this little gem of a book featuring fans that has not received much attention. Book features 68 fans; a nice percentage are lace; others hand-painted, feathers, and hard surfaces. Fan sticks beautifully carved, guards of mother-of-pearl, ivory, tortoiseshell, horn, ebony. _www.fan-museum.org_ (http://www.fan-museum.org/) Jeri Ames Lace and Embroidery Resource Center **************Get the Moviefone Toolbar. Showtimes, theaters, movie news & more!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212774565x1200812037/aol?redir=htt p://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000001)
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