I think the main reason that millennials are so interested in knitting and crochet is because celebrities have been seen to do these crafts while waiting around. The main thing is that it is so portable. Bobbin lace is not really portable, so it makes it more difficult to take it in your purse to do while waiting at the doctors office or at your kid's ball game or hockey game. Though I guess to get more people interested in at least some lacemaking is with tatting, it is very portable. I think it is going to be very difficult to make bobbin lace 'mainstream', though encouraging young artists will probably help.
*Marianne* Marianne Gallant Vernon, BC Canada [email protected] http://threadsnminis.blogspot.ca, https://www.facebook.com/GallantCreation/ On 21/07/2016 1:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > One thing I have been interested in recently, is how popular crocheting and > knitting has become in the last few years and how it has become one of the > staples in a modern woman's toolbox. As I recently read in a novel, knitting > is on the Modern Woman's List of Things To Do before Turning 30. I'm not sure > at which point or what made it so, but as you walk Michaels today you can see > how mainstream it has become from potholder weaving looms to rainbow > bracelets. How can we do the same for lace? > Perhaps the road is, just as you suggested, through the millennial artist, if > he/she can make a living at it, then it can become uniquely artistic; rather > than a forgotten craft. > - 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/
