Devon, I hope you have a wonderful time. The Italy I have seen, not much, and
not enough, is so beautiful. I have no information to help you, sorry.
This brings up another issue. When I travel, I like to see whatever lace
places there are. I spent a month in France, just looking at lace places. I
didn't see them all. A great way to see the countryside. When we went to
Sweden, I gathered up my list of lace places from the www, and got another list
of toy train shops for the DH, and we used that framework to travel from Malmo
to Umea. Worked great. Neither of us could complain. But I had no idea what
I would be seeing. One place was a tiny craft store that had some crochet
thread, and then there was Vadstena, which has TWO permanent lace shops, and,
at the time, 3 or 4 separate exhibits. No idea of its magnificence, lacewise,
until I was there. When we were cruising the Mediterranean, I did not go with
my husband on the trip from Antalya, Turkey, but I certainly would have if I'd
known there was a museum with, apparently, from DH's pictures, a substantial
exhibit on needlelace. In Bath, England, I had the in
formation that I could see lace in the museum in the Upper Rooms, but search
though I might, there was none, at least at the time. I got my information
from lacefairy.com, but it is not exhaustive. Is there a way of putting up a
database of places within countries which have exhibits of lace, or vendors of
lacemaking supplies? Generally, if one asks at the tourist desk, they have
little or no clue of what you're talking about, much less whether it exists
nearby. Would this undertaking be too difficult? Something that could be
updated.
Lyn from Pennsylvania, where my wisteria is getting into full swing, the lawn
mowers are humming, and I'm late putting in some of the vegetable garden, and
weeding.
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>Sent: Apr 24, 2010 10:03 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [lace] trip to Italy
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>I am contemplating a trip to Italy which may take the form of driving from
>Milan, through the Veneto, to Venice, then possibly to Florence, possibly
>to Rome. This would be in September.
>I am wondering what lace places there may be in the vicinity to visit.
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