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Whenever I go to a country, I always check lacefairy.com for what they say.
I take the paper with me, and I've done my research beforehand to find out
where these places are. Usually the lace places on lacefairy are nowhere near
where I'm going, but not always. There was Vadstena, Sweden, where there are
TWO shops dedicated solely to lacemaking. But anywhere there is a lace
museum, or a lace center, you can figure on lace supplies being sold somewhere
in town. Like the fantastic shop next to the lace museum in Le Puy en Velay
in France. Make sure you know the words in German.
Then there is the search. Wherever I am, in my Grandfather's village in
the Northern Black Forest, or Munchen, or Rothenburg ob der Tauber, I look for
needlework shops. A question, an answer, and you know. Most of the time I'm
not lucky, but every once in a while, bingo. There was a little shop in
Munchen in 1997 where I found reprinted lace books from before the first World
War. I bought my copy of Ulrike Lohr Voelker's Kloppelkurs in a regular
bookstore in Koblenz. And in Benalmadena Spain there was a little needlework
shop in the town where I bought 2 dozen Spanish bobbins, and about 3 lace
magazines. You never know what you will find. We were leaving Dinklesbuhl
last year in July during the Kinderzeche when I found out that the lace on the
re-enactors was all made by one woman in the town. We had appointments
elsewhere so I could not pursue this lead by looking for needlework places in
the town, nor trying to locate the lady. I find that lacemakers are very
cordial when another person interested in lace crosses their path.
In England, I was hoping to actually visit SMP, but the owner emailed me
back that they no longer had store hours, but they would be attending a
laceday in a small town, on a railroad line, somewhere an hour's train ride
south of London. I had the best time. But I couldn't buy the lovely travel
pillow because she didn't take credit cards.
If the language problem isn't too difficult, I'd look for lacedays at the
right time and in the right place. Don't count on the tourist bureaus,
usually so helpful, to know what you're talking about, unless you're at a lace
center. The google translator and the internet should be a great help in
this. They don't keep lacedays a secret from those who are interested.
Unfortunately, I've never looked for such things, so I can't tell you where to
look.
The one thing I can tell you is that in general you will have much more
luck there than in the US, that's for sure.
Lyn in Lancaster, PA, US where even my daffodils are in full bloom, the
Bradford Pear trees are blooming, people even have tulips.
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