[lace] Re: And how did you find out about making lace?

[Madelin Holtkamp]

I came to bobbin and needlelace making as a collector.  I inherited, from
my Gran and great-Gran, a small but rather marvelous collection of lace.  I
already knit lace, but as I worked on cleaning and restoring some of the
older pieces, I just got to thinking about having a go at it.  Fortunately,
the internet was in full swing when I decided to try and Ebay supplied what
I needed (after a false start with a horror kit) and the virtual community
of lacemakers on the net have been my teachers.

Madelin

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[lace] Re: And how did you find out about making lace?

[Tamara P Duvall]

On Oct 25, 2005, at 20:17, The Mouzons (Debbie) wrote:

All the talk about getting youger people interested in lacemaking made 
me wonder...how did you find out about lacemaking?


By an alphabetical order... :) I was sent to a craft branch of 
Blackwell's (bookstore) in Oxford, to check out the books on 
"miniatures"; I was interested in dollhouses at the time. The books on 
miniatures were less interesting than the ones I could find in US (I 
did buy one, just to confirm my belief that "starting from the egg", 
the way US books did, allowed more people to "join the club", however 
tedious it may be for the more advanced), but one of the books on the 
next shelf (L is next door to M ) seemed to "blow out of the water" 
my belief that lacemaking (bobbin variety) had to be learnt at a 
grandam's knee... It took two weeks to decide that I had enough "inner 
grit" (and financial resources ) to try an learn BL from a book, 
but, in the long run, it proved to be one more instance where trusting 
my instinct changed my life for the better.


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Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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