Dear Susan, Thank you so much for these two websites. I am trying to keep a list of lace places to see, and Cogne is a new one. The Le Puy website is new to me, although I have been there. It is a lovely website with lots to see. I saw it in 2007, and I can attest that at that time the campground was very nice, and not far from the lace shop and museum.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where the recent snow makes everything very bright in the sunshine. Susan wrote: >Le Puy is a beautiful place, with a fine exhibition hall, next year (June >to December) the theme is 'The finest circus costumes' - >http://www.ladentelledupuy.com/index.php?page=diaporama not to mention >Lacemakers in the street one week-end in June, and the 'couvige' or lace >day the first week-end in October. > >Having said that, Le Puy may not seem very far from Nice, but by train >you're thinking in terms of seven hours, with at least two changes... > >At a mere 120 Km from Nice, across the border in Italy, Cognes keeps alive >the tradition of Alpine lace: >http://www.dentellieres.com/Musee/Cogne/cogne2.htm (site in French, but the >photos speak for themselves) Cognes and Nice are twin-towns, but I don't >know if there's a train... "My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, please ignore it. I read your emails." - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
