Hello Everyone I made it to the Lace Festival last weekend and had a wonderful weekend . It was fantastic to be able to see some old friends and to meet and make some new ones.
On Saturday there were five speakers on "Lace Looking Forward". Elena Kanagy-Loux from USA started with an introduction and synopsis of her career and the use of Lace in fashion for the future. Cecilia Heffner spoke about her textile career and her contemporary response to the transient nature of place.  Lindy de Wijn outlined her lace journey with placing lace in Public spaces. Maggie Hensel-Brown also talked about her journey with her narrative needlelace works and finally Angharad Rixon talked about the presenters for the upcoming Doily Free Zone event. On Sunday we had six speakers for "Lace Looking Back". Gwynedd Roberts from UK told us about the Tebbs sisters and the lace school that they ran in the early 1900's. Rosemary Shepherd's talk on the origins of Bobbin Lace was presented by Angharad as Rosemary was not well enough to travel to the festival.  Barbara Ballantyne spoke about the filet crochet patterns of Mary Card. Dr Helen Parsons gave a talk about Lace in the Edwardian era with illustrations of many beautiful gowns. Effe Mitrofanis spoke about the evolution of the Italian Needlelaces. and finally Annete Meldrum spoke about the History and Heritage of all the Irish Laces. Altogether this was a very varied and interesting program .  I believe that the presentations were recorded. If the recordings become available for general viewing or listening I will post again. The venue for the weekend was at the Australian Catholic University and was a beautiful and comfortable venue. The Exhibition remains on view at Gallery 76 until March 3rd. Regards Dawn Howell On 6/02/2021 1:53 pm, Jenny Bargh wrote: > Afternoon All, > > I am very quiet on this list though the lace festival  here in Sydney > certainly has got my attention. I am a member of the Embroidererâs > Guild here in Sydney and look forward to seeing it all in reality very > soon. > > The gallery space has only been opened for a short time, then Covid > hit and everything got shut down. April does an amazing job of all our > exhibitions in our new space. > > For those of you that are unable to come in reality, Garyâs Fiber Talk > videos are on YouTube and this lace exhibition one is amazing. April > has been working hard to put it all together at Gallery 76. The > exhibitions change about every month to six weeks, and April does a > video tour for each one for Garyâs Fibertalk show. They are all on > YouTube for viewing pleasure. > > Jenny in Sydney. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> > > On Saturday, February 6, 2021, 11:41 am, Dawn Howell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All > > This Festival was originally planned for June last year and was > postponed until now because of Covid. I have been involved very > marginally and made one of the panels on the front of the building > and > also contributed a couple of circles which have been hung in trees in > the neighbourhood. I am hoping to travel from Melbourne to Sydney for > the Conference weekend and to see the exhibition. In Australia we > have > no Corona virus in the community and it only takes one case of a > worker > working in Hotel quarantine to be infected for the borders between > States to be closed , so I have my fingers crossed that that does not > happen. April from the Embroiderers Guild who appears in the > Video has > done a wonderful job of putting this exhibition together. > > Dawn Howell > > > On 5/02/2021 10:12 am, Arlene Cohen wrote: > > Hello, all - > > There is an amazing lace exhibit happening now at Gallery 76, > Embroiderers' > > Guild NSW in Australia. (I think I've got this right to say that the > > Embroiderers' Guild has a building and the exhibit space there > is called > > Gallery 76, but forgive me if that's not exactly correct.) > > Fibertalk - twice a week needlework podcasts and sometime live video > > broadcasts as well, all by Gary Parr - did a video tour with > April at the > > gallery this week. You can watch it > > here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Mz2_Iue8s&t=1808s > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Mz2_Iue8s&t=1808s> > > > > There is also an exhibit program available for download > > here:à > https://www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au/events/festival-of-lace-2021 > <https://www.embroiderersguildnsw.org.au/events/festival-of-lace-2021> > > > > Our own Elena Kanagy-Loux is a speaker at the conference > happening later this > > month. > > The Australian Lace Guild also is a part of this as well. Do we > have any > > Australians here that were involved in this exhibit and can > share with us? > > Digging out from the big snow earlier this week,Arlene in NJ > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. <mailto:[email protected].> > For help, write to > > [email protected]. > <mailto:[email protected].> Photo site: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/> > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. <mailto:[email protected].> > For help, write to > [email protected]. <mailto:[email protected].> > Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/> > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. 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