Dear Amanda, Happy to see your correspondence from Philadelphia. Knitters wear their knitting. For the sake of enticing young fiber artists and making people connected with funding organizations aware of the laces being made today: We must wear our laces in our everyday lives! You might show knitters the only "book" on laceioli, which I wrote for International Organization of Lace, Inc. as a free donation to fill the gap of few examples of quality needle lace. It is the most visited site on laceioli (5,639 visitors as of today). This IOLI address also has an incredible amount of information for scholars about researching laces, which follows the photo essay. If you are out meeting the public and have a computer with you, you can set it up to show this needle lace that takes one's breath away. http://laceioli.ning.com/forum/topics/french-chateau-laces-under-constructio n
The Chesapeake Region Lace Guild has (for 3 years) listed it on a page in their newsletter, so people can "point and enlarge" and see elements that would be nice to learn. You can use the very lovely threads or yarns available today to recreate these beautifully-designed trees and flowers, in colorful needle lace. Perfection does not matter. Wearing what you make does matter. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center --------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 7/22/2016 9:33:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I love that we have laceioli! But it doesn't really address the issue of seducing my local knitters over to the lace side of the force :) Amanda Furrow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US ---------------------------------------------- On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:52:41PM -0500, Lorelei Halley wrote: > Amanda > Perhaps you are not aware of laceioli, a ning group which includes all form > of hand made lace as its territory. It includes both tatting and teneriffe, > as well as others. Joining is free. The IOLI pays our annual hosting fee to > ning. The software makes posting and discussing photos very easy. Its > membership is much wider than IOLI members only. In fact, I think that less > than half the members are also IOLI members. And many are also members of > Arachne. We currently have 1681 members. Virtually the whole site is > visible to the public, members or not. The purpose of that is to make > knowledge and information widely available. Please come and visit. > http://laceioli.ning.com > Lorelei Halley Administrator > --------------------------- > Amanda Babcock Furrow > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lace] Supporting young lacemakers > > I had already had some thoughts on this and I had noticed recently that the > thriving knitting groups use Meetup.com to get together - that seems to be > where the 20 and 30-something crowd look for events. I did think of tatting > and Teneriffe as gateway interests, if you will, and I was thinking that > lacemaking meetups (using Meetup.com), with a focus on welcoming lace > knitters and crocheters as well as other kinds of lace, could be a great way > to expose people to all the other options - tatting, Teneriffe, needlelace > and of course bobbinlace! > > Amanda Furrow > Philly, Pennsylvania, US - 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/
