Clay: Colorado State Fair also has glass cabinets that the lace is displayed in, and the RMLG has supplied 2 guild members each year as Judges since about 1994 or 1995 when we made the offer to the Fair Organisers, so Colorado is a state with 'qualified' lace judges :-)
And our Guild president of a few years ago instituted a Lace Judging class for our members who wished to Judge at the fair, so if you want to Judge, you have to do the class - regardless of how much you know about lace and how long you've made it. It's made for a little bit of uniformity in criteria judged from year to year (I hope), as the 2 Judge team changes from year to year. And Devon: don't forget you contributed a very interesting article too (as you always do). I have to say that your article brought back some memories of my time in early 1994, as I was cataloguing the RMLG library, and I had some wonderful old issues of the Bulletin to accession and index, and at the same time was trying to find or design a piece of lace that I could make for my wedding dress later that year. Designing wasn't working out too well for me, and I stumbled upon a pattern one day that was exactly what I was looking for - and it reflected my engagement ring design beautifully. I recently went back to my first few volumes of IOLI Bulletins from when I joined (coming up to 20 years ago), as I searched for something, and it was fun going back and looking through them. I had the same entertainment and trip down memory lane when I had to hunt for something else through my ALG Magazines - and that's 24 years' worth now :-) It's interesting to see how the magazines change, not just with Editorial changes, and advances in publishing, but in content as well. Also, that sawtooth edge pops up in some old Bedfordshire patterns - Anita Wilkinson has some redrawn/trued patterns in her books with that edge, and I think I've seen one in Nottingham's Bedfordshire book (might be one of my other Beds books - definitely not Turner, though). Cheers, Helen, in Duvall, WA, where we've been lulled into a false sense of spring today, only to have the showers return tomorrow. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
