[lace-chat] Valentine customs
♥ In the 1950s when our Northern Lancashire family moved to Norwich in East Anglia, my Mother announced that in these new 'foreign parts' Valentine gifts were given to children and both my Brother and Myself benefitted, much to our delight. However I do not know where the idea had come from and our family custom lapsed and I have never heard it from others. So I was really excited to see the custom recorded in Parson Woodeforde's Diary for February 14th 1777 ………..to 36 children being Valentine's day and what is customary for them to go about in these parts this day gave 0. 3. 0 ( 3 shillings ) being one penny apiece to each of them.. Parson Woodforde had been appointed as Rector of the Anglican parish of Weston Longeville just outside Norwich and had moved from Oxford and his family home, of Ansford in Somerset. I have been re-reading the diary as part of my study of the late 18th century for our Regency booklets. Do any of you know if this custom survived anywhere else? Often customs like this were taken to America and survived longer there. Just a thought to warm a rather grey day ………..Spring, in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner. ♥ Jean http://www.jeanmaryeke.com and click on the valentine link To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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I'm not aware of any customs like this in the area I live in the US (Mid Atlantic region - Virginia specifically). What *is* traditional is for children to make (the old days) or buy valentines to share with all their classmates and friends. Sadly, I think that some schools now have stopped this activity in the interest of cultural sensitivity. But after-school programs and church programs still carry on the tradition. Clay On 2/1/2011 9:31 AM, Jean Eke wrote: ♥ In the 1950s when our Northern Lancashire family moved to Norwich in East Anglia, my Mother announced that in these new 'foreign parts' Valentine gifts were given to children and both my Brother and Myself benefitted, much to our delight. However I do not know where the idea had come from and our family custom lapsed and I have never heard it from others. So I was really excited to see the custom recorded in Parson Woodeforde's Diary for February 14th 1777 ………..to 36 children being Valentine's day and what is customary for them to go about in these parts this day gave 0. 3. 0 ( 3 shillings ) being one penny apiece to each of them.. Parson Woodforde had been appointed as Rector of the Anglican parish of Weston Longeville just outside Norwich and had moved from Oxford and his family home, of Ansford in Somerset. I have been re-reading the diary as part of my study of the late 18th century for our Regency booklets. Do any of you know if this custom survived anywhere else? Often customs like this were taken to America and survived longer there. Just a thought to warm a rather grey day ………..Spring, in the Northern Hemisphere is just around the corner. ♥ Jean http://www.jeanmaryeke.com and click on the valentine link To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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On 2/1/11 9:31 AM, Jean Eke wrote: Do any of you know if this custom survived anywhere else? Often customs like this were taken to America and survived longer there. It might have been an influence on our Halloween customs. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the Big Blizzard is finally getting here, maybe. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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Jean, we have always known Valentineâs Day as being the day when Jack Valentine came to the house, knocked on the door, left a present and went away without being seen â yes we now know it was dad that had gone round the back way and come back into the house all surprised that Jack Valentine had visited. Sue Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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In the US it is customary for children to exchange penny Valentines, tiny minimal Valentine greetings in tiny envelopes, especially in school. My grade school classroom had a box to put all the Valentines in. My mother insisted on enclosing tiny valentine candies with each penny Valentine, causing quite a stir. Once it again it was quite obvious that my mother was the best mother ever. I even recall a year when she equipped us with red, silver and gold papers and paper doilies and we went at it with the glue and scissors, crafting an individual Valentine for each child in my class. (In retrospect this doily episode seems like it might have had more impact on my development than anyone may have suspected at the time.) Also, I always received Valentines from my parents and even from my pets and stuffed animals. My daughter was similarly gifted. However, Valentine treats were usually candy, or a paper greeting, not money. When I lived in France in 1983 I made a Valentine for the child of a French friend and the mother stared at it querulously and asked me if I prepared them every year, leaving me to wonder if the French didn't have this Valentine custom. Perhaps it was simply a comment on the quality of the homemade Valentine. Now that my daughter is an adult, my husband buys the most inexpensive box of Godiva chocolates available at a kiosk in a department store in the mall, for each of us, to be presented on Valentine's Day. But he does not buy roses, which appear on every street corner on that day, at hugely inflated prices. From Wikipedia, I note that there is a move on by the diamond indu stry to make Valentine's Day a jewelry giving occasion, but that has not caught on at our house. Devon To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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I have a friend who is going to be in Belgium at the end of August, early September and was wondering if anyone could please suggest things that she should check out while she is there. She is a keen lacemaker and would like to get some lace supplies also. Are there any lace days being held at that time ? Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated Many thanks Julie from NZ To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
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Le 02/02/11 00:01, dmt11h...@aol.com a écrit : leaving me to wonder if the French didn't have this Valentine custom. well, they don't .. nowadays, you're supposed to offer something to your sweetheart but it's an imported custom actually . dominique To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
