I've just spent a week high in the French Alps and was lucky enough to come across a French lacemaker demonstrating at a Mountain Festival in Tignes. Unfortunately my French has been hard hit by spending time in Austria attempting to use German and the lady had little English but I hope she understood that I was a fellow lacemaker. She assured me that the gorgeous chunky bobbins she was working with were specific to Tignes as well as the hooped pillows she was working on. There was also an exhibition on the development of Tignes as a ski resort due to the downturns of the late C19th and early C20th when the population headed away from the high valleys and farming and other industries such as lacemaking. I was delighted to see a picture of the 'dentellieres' and have included it in my slideshow of the lacemaker and her pillows and bobbins on webshots. Please see the link to have a little look.
I won't bore you with the alpine flowers, the wonderful views, the videos of the cows parading up the street and the folkdancers - let alone the high divers jumping from a helicopter into an icy lake! However, in due course those may well make it to another album..... Enjoy! http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/slideshow/580711262bzJKdr Lynne Lynne Cumming, back in cold, wet Baldock, North Herts UK [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of image001.jpg] - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
