In reply to a couple correspondents around the globe: "Wear lace" has been my mantra, in lower case letters, for many years. And, I have had many feedback arguments from Arachne members that they don't (or won't) wear lace. A few of us believe that you must wear lace, to generate lace conversations. It may result only in someone going home and looking at a furnishing lace in a new light, perhaps taking better care of it. It may result in a "my grandmother" story that will increase your knowledge about lace in your geographic area. It may - at least - provoke conversation. After I wrote that long note to Arachne yesterday, it was time to run errands. I live in a rural part of Maine where women dress very casually. It is Winter and I was wearing a unbuttoned white coat over a bright pink turtleneck sweater, black slacks. I put on a Halas lace pendant on a gold chain. The lace is inside a 1 1/2" diameter plexiglass holder, made for a important coin, with a rim of gold. Not much in the total scheme, and quite small, overall. Two people asked what I was wearing! One was a young female clerk in the Radio Shack where I was shopping. The other was a male host in a local steak house where I stopped for a late lunch. If we do not "wear lace", to generate conversation, how is the general population to know that it is still being made? All they have seen is machine-made lacy stuff that is mass-produced. You can quickly explain how a nice small piece of tasteful lace is made. My favorite gift for women during my international lace travels is a under-sized tatted doily, diamond shaped, to use as a mat under a brooch (pin). These are 3 1/2", point-to-point. You slap it on whatever you are wearing just below the shoulder, and pin it in place with a brooch (pinning through the holes). These wear well, and do not involve a lot of effort. Again. All of us can at least wear a little lace! Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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