In the 1990's /early 2000's Alan and I had a number of holidays in
Normandy/Britanny. Needless to say I bought a number of lace cards.
Lucky some were from the early 1900s, with old lace The newer cards,
in colour, tended to be headdresses etc. of machine lace. Many
different designs but with very few showing handmade lace. On a visit
to the museum in Quimper, the costumes on show used machine lace!!!
If I worked on my pillow when we stopped for a picnic, people were
surpised to see what I was doing and were astonished to learn that a) I
was English and b) that lacemaking was alive in England, while they had
not seen it being worked in Northern France!
I can only hope that since Caen 2008 things will have changed.
Sheila in dull Sawbridgeworth
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