Dear Lace Lovers, Yes, we are most grateful to Liz Reynolds. It is the 20th anniversary of our founding, but we are actually 19 years of age. We can celebrate our founding this year and still have a year to plan a larger birthday with goodies next year. It would be nice to have a committee of Arachne representatives by nation or continent, with a person representing each. And, they could select someone who is very organized to coordinate? We should also have volunteers working on a mini-celebration next year at the Slovenia OIDFA Congress, and other large (national) group meetings in 2016. Any volunteers? Obviously, some financing will be needed for public relations, etc. - another subject for discussion, but maybe best done by the committee instead of loading so much on our lace discussion site. Let me hasten to add that I am not volunteering. I am already on a research committee that uses my library, and I am getting old, so looking for a permanent home for the library. This is the most important thing I can do for future lace and embroidery scholars. We have just heard how a carefully-placed lace study collection can be caught in a web of college/museum politics, so.... quite a challenge. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center ------------------------------------------------------------ In a message dated 3/15/2015 2:21:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Arachne was started April 12, 1995 by Liz Reynolds. She has maintained it all these years, even when she was too busy to read the messages. Many thanks to Liz. There has been nothing said about commemoratives this year. I think it's been a year or two or more since we had any. It was always a lot of work for someone when we had them, though it was fun for the rest of us. April 12 is on a Sunday. We can make it Arachne Day, and all plan to make at least a little lace that day -- and toast Arachne. I have learned so much over the years from this List and it's many people. Thanks to everyone for the education and encouragement. Alice in Oregon -- where it's pouring outside right now. - 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/
