Dear Jane and other Friends, Grandma retired. By now, Mum had a family and spent 4 years abroad. We were in Tasmania and I remember Mum being interviewed on TV (ABC?) about her lacemaking and I thought she did some teaching (I must check this!). I've sometimes wondered what happened to lacemaking in Tasmania in the '60s.
I smiled when I read this as it was in Tasmania that I bought my first pillows. That was years before I could maker bobbin lace but I knew what they were. It was in a big old barn of an antique shed out at New Norfolk where I spied TWO Princess Pillows from 1903. There was a scrap of lace but only 3 bobbins. I reckon that was about 1981. A couple of years earlier I'd bought Miss Tebbs' book and a reel of very fine thread at a shop in Riversdale Road, Camberwell in Melbourne. I'm sure many here will remember that shop. However it wasn't until early in 1996 after I'd joined this Arachne List that I began to learn Bobbin Lace. In fact I'm probably the first person to learn it online! Wow that's already over 20 years ago and I've learned a lot more since then. Davide Downunder in Ballarat, AUS - 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/
