People are contacting me privately with observations which are very interesting. One correspondent believes that post war immigration of Europeans to the US was a factor in the development of lacemaking here. This is an interesting observation because there were a number of people who were major figures in the 1970s who had learned lace in Europe. My teacher, Gunvor Jorgensen, learned lace in Tonder, Denmark. It took me a while to realize that she had not learned this as some kind of a folk progression leading directly from the 17th century, but rather as part of a late 19th, early 20th century government initiative to re-introduce this important heritage craft to Tonder. Kathe Kliot was a German refugee who was very instrumental in the California lace movement. Radmila Zuman was from Czecholoslovakia. In addition to the immigrants, Americans were learning the craft in Europe possibly during military or other job postings. In fact, it would have been rather hard to learn the craft in the US from someone who had learned it in the US in the 1970s, although it would not be the case now. Devon
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