"Ruth Rocker" <[email protected]> wrote
My great grandmother taught me to embroider, crochet, knit, sew, etc. > as she thought those were the hallmarks of a "lady" and that's what she wanted me to be. Unfortunately for her, I was a tomboy instead.
Your comment made me smile as it brought back memories of my maternal grandmother. She too was very much the 'lady' and desired me to be one too. Fat chance of that happening given that I started life and a hoyden and have remained that way.
It was her father to whom I have to thank for an interest in lace. Add to his existence my keen interest in genealogy and I was doomed to take up lace.
I'd known all my life that Grandmother had supposedly had a French Governess and that Great Grandfather was reputed to be a well off "Lace Manufacturer" before migrating from Britian to Oz. I thought both these tales were suspect but found out when I did my research that both proved to be true and proveable.
At the time I started lace, I had been working in wood making 'fine furniture' and had gone to a furniture exhibition where a lady was demonstrating lace. I had a long discussion with her and she told me that if I wanted to see more lace, that her group was meeting that day at another venue and I could see lots of lace there. I went along and thus I got caught up - hook, line and sinker.
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