Reading Brenda's knowledgeable review of the apparent absence of lacemaking in Celtic regions reminds me of something I have seen for years in Virginia! Reenactment of Civil War battles were all over the entire country in recent years, and reenactors were everywhere! The problem is, lots of women wanted to get in on the fun, and so they dressed themselves in hoop skirts and sat on the sidelines making bobbin lace! That was so wrong in so many ways! Women,during the civil war, and especially near battlefields, did not make lace! They struggled to provide food and shelter for their families and certainly did not have the time or interest in lacemaking. Remember that machine lace had become available by that point, and Lacemaking by hand was quickly becoming a lost art. It was not until a few decades after the end of the war that Europeans revived the lost art, and it was years later before American women caught on.
I think that in our enthusiasm to share this wonderful work, we really need to provide accurate information. Clay Struggling now to "get off of my high horse" in Lynchburg, VA Sent from my iPad > >> >> I'd like to find some information about bobbin lace specifically in the >> Celtic nations (officially: Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Brittany >> [northwest corner of France], and Cornwall, and some lists also include >> Galicia in northern Spain). Can someone recommend a book or other source of >> such information? All I've found online is about Ireland, and not very much >> of that. > > - 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/
