Dear Robin,
Catherine Barley recently sent me a photo of a new needlelace piece she has made,
And this loops into the recent thread about the California Poppy lace exhibit.The poppy project is a collection of interpretations of the same Art Nouveau poppy design by Ulrike Voelcker. Many lacemakers contributed samples and the results are spectacular.Someone else will have to remind us of which museum is showing the poppies now.
You're right Robin. It is a unique opportunity to compare different laces. Many laces were worked using the same basic design. All of them are the same size so that they can easily be compared even though a wide variety of sizes of threads were used. In Los Angeles people would walk back and forth to look at how different people handled different parts of the poppy. It was great fun! The 36 pieces range from Binche to Milanese, Mechlin to Lutac, Polychrome to Carrickmacross, Paris to Withof and many more including, of course, Catherine's exquisite Point de Gaze.
Right now it is part of the fabulous Sansepolcro Biennial, the big lace exhibition in Sansepolcro, Italy. As Catherine has already mentioned, the next place it will hang will be the National Needlework Archive in England. It is definitely worth a visit.
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