Re: [lace] Christmas lace gifts/French book

2007-12-26 Thread bevw
Hi Janice I think your book title translates on Of (about) the fish crisis and (to do with) the golden age of lace - quite a few laces were developed to give some income to fisherfolk at a time when the primary resource of fishing wasn't viable. Rosaline lace from the Netherlands comes to mind.

[lace] Christmas lace gifts

2007-12-26 Thread Janice Blair
Hi, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, whether with family and friends, or a quiet one like my DH and I had. We celebrated Christmas last Sunday so we were eating leftovers on Christmas Day. I saved the Christmas Pud until then though. No use wasting it on people who can't appreciate

Re: [lace] Christmas lace gifts/French book

2007-12-26 Thread sof
Hello, We spoke of this book, some years ago on arachne. It's a wonderfull book. The tittle expalin all the storie . In XIX century in pays bigouden a lots of people worked in fish. (fishermen and canning factory). There was a crisis in 1902 and no sardine in the ocean more than one year.