From: Tamara P. Duvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some of the men associated with lacemaking were designers, and one of
them (Thomas Lester) could be considered famous, if only in lacemaking
circles...
One thing nobody's mentioned yet--in those days, it was rare for a woman to
own a company or
Hello Everybody,
In a prospctus about Bedford Lacemaking they wrote: In the early years of
16th century, Katharine of Aragon was imprisoned in Ampthill whilst divorce
proceedings were taken against her by King Henry VII. It is believed that
she taught the villagers lacmaking.
And later: Did you
On 13 Dec 2003, at 04:59, Roslyn wrote:
I read this week a filler in the paper that said all the famous
lacemakers
were men.
Now I don't know famous lacemakers nor if they were men or women, but
I had
always thought that the men associated with lace were more like
middlemen.
They would buy
This is interesting as these are almost word for word lifted from 'The
romance of the lace pillow' by Thomas Wright (publised by Ruth Bean)
It hasn't been proved that Katherine of Aragon has any link to actually
making lace herself outside of folk lore - kat stich is said to be named
after her
At 10:15 AM 12/13/03 -0800, Adele Shaak wrote:
So, sadly, we can't argue with this filler because it has probably been
handed down in a book of filler lines for 50 years or more. It's like
trying to get the Scrabble dictionary people to correct their
definition that tat means lacemaking. A
Rather than attacking either the reporter or the editor about the inaccuracy
of the statement they printed why not use this as an opportunity to educate
the press and their readership about lace and lacemakers. Clearly,
reporters, whether men or women, cannot research every filler line used in
On Friday, Dec 12, 2003, at 23:59 US/Eastern, Roslyn wrote:
I read this week a filler in the paper that said all the famous
lacemakers
were men.
Now I don't know famous lacemakers nor if they were men or women, but
I had
always thought that the men associated with lace were more like
