Carol wrote: <I am a tad surprised at the 'carping' that has ensued from the Lark Rise lace-making.>
I do hope that wasn't directed at me. I wasn't carping. I'm fully aware that we should be pleased that lacemaking was shown - in fact my last sentence was "I'm sure there are others, but it was so nice to see bobbin lacemaking getting such a good airing on TV."
I know that many lacemakers in other countries are interested in 'Larkrise to Candleford' and especially in the fact that one of the characters was a lacemaker. That's why I put the screenshots on Arachne webshot so that they can see some of what we saw. As a lacemaker it would be wrong to ignore the errors - those of us who've been lacemaking for some time would notice them anyway and those who haven't might have learnt something. I'm always willing to learn and would have been pleased if the anomalies had been pointed out if I didn't know them. It certainly isn't niggling or carping - it provides a basis for discussion.
And yes, the demise of bobbin lacemaking was well illustrated. My first posting last night was "On tonight's Larkrise Queenie finds that she loses a sources of income as no-one wants her handmade lace because the industrial revolution has resulted in cheaper machine-made lace." Unless Queenie continues to teach Ruby that's probably the last lacemaking we'll see on TV for a very long time as I don't know of any other TV drama that would be likely to include it. As I said before the coverage in the 'Edwardian Farm' with Pat Perryman was disappointing - she covered the history of Honiton lace but showed very little of the making and it wouldn't have made anyone want to take it up.
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