I think getting the word out about lacemaking is the main thing. I'm at the IOLI convention and specifically learned to tat and bought a book on how to make Teneriffe lace just so I can (in my own small way) make lacemaking more visible to others and more portable for myself. I want to be able to strike up a conversation about lace when someone asks what I'm doing, and be able to show them how easy and mobile it can be.
I think if each of us goes out of our way, in consistent, small ways, to spread the word about lacemaking, as has happened for knitting and crochet, we can make a definite impact. I don't feel it's celebrities that millennials are copying, I really feel that they're trying to get back to artisan skills and crafts, and have begun to appreciate more handmade and homemade items than in the past 20 years or so. Riding the coattails of a resurgence in handcrafts can be a very positive thing. Virginia "Beth" Harpell Historic Property Specialist www.HistoricHouseHunter.com 973-650-1637 Cell 973-770-7777 Office RE/MAX House Values 101 Landing Road Roxbury, NJ 07850 RE/MAX 100% Club & NJAR Circle of Excellence > On Jul 21, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Marianne Gallant <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ - 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/
