Please share with your lace making friends, groups, guilds, newsletter editors. This is an example of how to continue to promote lace making or any other hand-made textile in our increasingly impersonal world. Photography on this UNESCO site is especially good at telling the Intangible Cultural Heritage story of Slovenian lace.
https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/bobbin-lacemaking-in-slovenia-01378 Please notice the reasons people in Slovenia make lace all their lives. Photos and text includes girls and boys and women and men. Two grey haired men (grandfather and son) are seen making lace and remembering childhood lacemaking training. One mentions becoming a cobbler in Ziri when he stopped making lace. Do you remember the large lace archway made by Manca Ahlin for a lace installation in Ziri that had shoes hanging from the arch? In addition to the film, if you click the right arrow at bottom row of photos you will see Manca Ahlin's lace wall, made of heavy cord. Her 5-foot-by-5-foot doily-like lighted wall hanging called Corona is in the New Jersey lace exhibit - Lace, not Lace - made of cord, fiber optic cable, and EL wire (lights). She is an architect in New York City, and is a member of the Brooklyn Lace Guild, NY. Read about her in the Lace, Not Lace exhibit catalog and search her name on internet for more lace. If you went to the OIDFA Congress in Slovenia, you would have met Ahlin and other Slovenian women who continue to combine professional careers with lacemaking.  They spoke several languages, including English. What more can we do to promote the reasons to make lace that will benefit healthy living and lift spirits? Jeri Ames in Maine USALace and Embroidery Resource Center - 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/
