[lace] lace collections

[The Browns]

I have given my antique lace collection to The Manor House Museum in 
Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk,England.   Why this museum?
Because they have a very good textile collection of costumes etc.;They 
have a display from these collections that changes at least twice a 
year; if any textiles need repair -darning, beading and so forth- they 
can call upon highly skilled needlewomen who do the repairs as a labour 
of love taking all the time that is neccesary.  I have also deposited my 
mother's 1928 French wedding dress with them.
Togther with the lace has gone my library of lace history, lace 
journals(which gets updated) and identification.    This decision was 
taken a) because we are moving into a smaller house and b) to make sure 
they where they could be of use across East  Anglia and c) to relieve 
our children of the problems of disposing of a collection/library  of 
which they had little knowledge.
I hope this contribution to the discussion will inspire others to follow 
the same path.

Sheila in a still sunny but cooler Sawbridgeworth
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