Jane, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. I'm not exactly sure how it came to be me, I was on holiday in Scotland, when I got an email asking if I would be back to do it. My fellow Isis member, Eileen had been asked but would be away. I believe she had been contacted by Waddesdon Manor as we had demonstrated there recently. I live just 22 miles from Waddesdon so consider myself local. At no time did I mention either Lace Guild or Lace Society. I belong to both, and have done since the beginning of the Guild, and shortly after the Society was formed. I have no special allegiance to either. In fact, I did it for all Lacemakers. I have always been happy to show or teach anyone who's interested, and I think we should all grab any opportunity to get Lacemaking to a wider audience, however it may come about. Christine Lardner (Oxford)
--- Original Message --- From: "Jane Partridge" <[email protected]> Sent: June 28, 2014 11:45 AM To: "Hazel Smith" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], "Christine Lardner" <[email protected]> Subject: Lacemaking on BBC This was probably just a case of Christine being in the right place at the right time. When they were asking for a demonstrator last time they contacted The Lace Guild as well as the Lace Society, giving only two day's clear notice, which is why the Guild didn't get a chance to ask any of the more local lacemakers (in case anyone was wondering - no offence to Christine, she did a marvellous job). In fact, we didn't know they'd asked the Society as well! It made me wonder if they'd asked around their own staff - when I was working for them (in Birmingham) back in the 1970-80s I knew of three of us (I was on the staff, the other two engineers' wives) in the Engineering Dept who made lace, and I'm certain we would have found more if we'd asked the question - especially as I later went on to do my C&G lacemaking alongside a former BBC costume designer (Carol was doing her Part 2 whilst I was doing Part 1). In those days urgent messages to staff (like when they were desperate for audiences for shows!) were broadcast on an in-house teletext system, with a monitor tuned in to it in various places around the building. These days I expect it is all done by email. In message <[email protected]>, Hazel Smith <[email protected]> writes > Presumably the BBC now have you on file as their go-to expert for >lacemaking. -- Jane Partridge - 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/
