Tamara wrote: >I thought St Regis was a male? Not to discount/disparage our male > > lacemakers in any way but, aren't male lacemakers few and far between? > > he is indeed ...VBG.. but he is also the local saint and the people > there were very religious . the pillows were often adorned with religious > images and cards. lace makers weren't male but a lot of the designers were .
Yes, but you forgot to say that St Regis wasn't a lacemaker at all, Dominique, he was a priest in or near Le Puy who did a lot to promote the lace industry because he saw that his parishioners were very poor. He was canonized after his death because he had done so much for the region. The region near Le Puy is not rich, very little agriculture, apart from lentils (Le Puy green lentils are famous), and chesnut trees, which furnished the staple diet of peasants around there, they used chestnut flour for everything, because they couldn't afford wheat flour. My father's family comes from that area, and they all fled in the 19th century to go to Paris and further South to Albi, where the country was a lot richer. Both my parents lived in the country when very young, and they got roasted chestnuts to keep their fingers warm in winter while walking the 8 miles to primary school. Pioneers were not just in the US, a lot of people were extremely poor still in central France until after the First World War, when communications got better and food got cheaper to transport. Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who loves chestnuts, but boiled rather than roasted. And so does her cat, Smudge :-) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
