This chat has made me go back to our photos taken when in Washington DC, and the visit, with the IOLI tour, - to the American History Museum, and the wonderful day out we had on that tour.
We saw many of the pieces shown on the web site, and luckily DH took photos of many of the pieces! I must admit that at the time I was more interested in the Old laces - 17th & 18th Century pieces, and only briefly looked at these laces, as, to me, they were "Modern"!! Last year there was a Very interesting talk, during one lunch time (I think) on the War laces, and slides were shown. I wish I had heard that talk before seeing the History Museum pieces, as I would have appreciated them so much more! Thank you, Karen, for alerting us to this web site, where we can see these remarkable pieces, and appreciate the effort that went into not only making them, but selling them and getting them out of the country, too. The suffering that went on, for these lacemakers, - but they still produced beautiful pieces of lace. Amazing. Karen - were you one of the volunteers who looked after us on that afternoon? We had the morning to ourselves to roam the whole museum, and then after lunch we were taken down to the 3 "Hidden Rooms" where masses of lace was laid out for us to drool over!!! Even the Needlelace "Bayeux Tapestry" - or part of it! Regards from Liz in Melbourne [email protected] - 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/
