Back in late March, one of our dear lacemakers(Thanks Susie) alerted us to the exhibit ³The Urge To Embellish² that is being shown at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, IL. My wife and I were thrilled to get a chance to see this exhibit this past weekend. Here is the post for reference from Susie that was posted earlier on the lace list about this exhibit:
=======snip============ The Urge to Embellish exhibition will be open from February 6, 2011 through October 2, 2011. ______ Link to the staff dressing the manikin with the lace dress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghTOT01PgM =============unsnip=========== We got up to the floor where it was located and just as you walk through the door, there was that lace dress!!! SO COOL!!! I can only imagine the hours it took those 22 lacemakers to make that dress. There were so many different motifs and it wasn¹t symmetrical in design. So I took a lot of close up pictures. I made sure before hand that it was ok to take pictures of the articles. Can only use non-flash photography. So I set up my camera and off I went to take as many pictures as I could of the dress and other fancy articles in the exhibit. Because I had to turn off my flash and the lighting wasn¹t the best, my pictures aren't as good as I hoped. But still easy to view. They even had a German pillow set up. Nicely displayed. My wife and I are into all kinds of hand works, so this was a treat. And we read all the descriptions of each article and they were well written and from what we gathered, well researched. Things seemed to be stated correctly. I can¹t describe to you everything that I saw, but I wonder if you think it would be ok to show the lace list all my pictures I took of the exhibit. They allowed us to take pictures, can¹t I show to people who wouldn¹t otherwise get a chance to see this exhibit? Let me know what you think. I am setting up a website to view all the pics just in case. -- Mark, aka Tatman website: http://www.tat-man.net blog: http://tat-man.net/blog Magic Thread Shop: http://www.tat-man.net/tatterville/tatshop/tatshop.html email: tat...@tat-man.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tatmantats - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
