>I would like to know if there is a book or a monograph connected with this, >and what else David Hopkin has studied in connection with lace. Which >folklore and songs are connected with lacemaking? And, btw, why is this >lecture being given in English in Estonia? > >Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where spring continues. The 6 Bradford >Pear trees are about to bloom in the park behind my house. > >Pene Piip wrote: >> >>I was informed about a lecture this evening which I'm planning to attend. >> >>Today, on Monday April 15^th , David Hopkin from the University of >>Oxford will give a talk called: >> >>"*The Visionary World of the Lacemaker*"** >> >>David sent a short presentation of the lecture: >> >>"Handmade lace is a strange textile which comes laden with meanings... >> But they were also visited again and again by folklorists because >> lacemakers' >>collective work patterns encouraged storytelling and singing. Many of >>the most important folksong and folktale collections from Flanders and >>France were made among lacemakers. What do these texts tell us about >>lacemakers' lives and their relationship with their craft? Lacemakers >>rejected many aspects of what the state, church, lace-entrepreneurs and >>family patriarchs had in mind for them. What emerges instead is their >>relationship to the supernatural and the visionary quality of >>lacemakers' imagination." >> >>I'm not sure that I agree with the last few sentences. But I will share >>my impressions. >>Penelope in Tartu, Estonia where the snow is finally melting,
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