Thank you for sharing that lovely story. Precious lacy memories for you
and for them.
Sue T, Dorset UK
Hi all,
This is a different way of doing a hands on demo at heritage events.
Just
have to share my joy with you about my lacemaking demonstration at Grande
Levee in Vandalia, IL this past weekend(June 16-17).
But there is this one happy memory at this event that I will always
treasure. Usually the kids are fascinated by my lacemaking, of course I
don't let them touch it, but occasionally I will let them have a go at
trying to tat or bobbinlace. Amongst the crowd two ladies(mother and
daughter type) came up slowly and I looked up from my pillow to notice
that
one of them was blind(not sure if she was partial or fully blind from her
wearing dark glasses) but her caretaker was with her to help explain where
she was. I had the most fortunate experience to explain in detail of
exactly what I was doing and the motion that it took to achieve the lace.
Normally I don't let anyone touch the lace or the pillow(even tho some do
sneak a few touches before I can say something), but with the prompting of
her caretaker I just had to give this person a full hands on experience.
This precious blind person touched the pillow and felt the bobbins while I
explained, and also touched the pins. Then I had her touch the finished
Bedfordshire lace edging that was spilling down the roller pillow. All the
while she was fondling my pillow, both her and her caretaker were oooohing
and aaaahhhhing and each part.
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