Sue Dane, Chairman of The Lace Guild, has asked me to post the message below to Arachne on the Larkrise to Candleford discussions.
Kind regards Susan Editor of Lace --------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Roberts http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/susanroberts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- The Lace Guild was contacted by the BBC for advice in advance of the episode showing lacemaking being made. In fairness to the actresses concerned and the production team, The Lace Guild Executive would like to correct rumours and inaccuracies which have been drawn to our attention. All lacemaking in the episode shown was carried out entirely by the two actresses concerned. Following hours of tuition from one of our local tutors, they could both competently handle bobbins, complete Bucks Point ground, footside and headside with picots. The two ladies both put a lot of effort into learning some of our skill, as they wanted to do justice to lacemakers and their skills. They should be applauded for it. The pillow shown and the lace on it were provided by Sue Dane from The lace Guild, other Bucks Point lace was provided by Pam Nottingham. The BBC production team did take some of our advice, changing some of the original script, which mentioned the colours of the bobbin spangles. We had no input at the filming stage. Unfortunately they used a piece of Maltese lace in the filming, not provided by us and described it as Point Ground lace. Their error has been pointed out to them. Kind regards Sue Dane Lace Guild Chairman - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
