The Potomac Craftsmen guild in the Washington, DC suburbs meets once a month in a church nursery school room. They have an extensive library housed in two large bookcases on wheels. The book cases are hinged in such a way that they close up into one large rectangle, and are then wheeled into a storage closet at the church. The guild looked long and hard before they found an affordable space that would house their meetings and library. The library is wheeled out and opened at every meeting.
Anita Okrend Silver Spring, Maryland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tamara P Duvall Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 12:22 AM To: Lace Arachne Subject: [lace] Re: Where does your lace guild meet? On Aug 22, 2009, at 23:20, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for ideas on where a lace guild could meet. I don't have a local-enough guild, so don't attend meetings but one of the locations that has always struck me as mutually beneficent was a sewing notions store, if it's big enough (and many do have a back room which might be suitable). Most lacemakers are "into" more than just lacemaking, so the temptation to keep buying threads and other "stuff" while in such a store is always overpowering :) The issue of a permanent library is something else, however. The only time I've seen one was in Pittsburgh, where one of the guilds (they had two, IIRC -- Robin Panza will straighten me out, if not) was meeting in a church basement/vestry. All other guilds I know cart their libraries with them evey time... -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
