Dear Spiders,
This being a long holiday week (Passover) it was decided to have in
my town two days of open house in which all the local artists opened
their houses to visitors. I was paired up with an aquarelle painter
in her home. Unfortunately our day was quite ruined by the rain and
cold wseather and winds. It didn't rain the whole winter in Arad and
on this day it just started raining at 8 in the morning non-stop till
sundown. (At least my car got a free car wash). But we did have some
visitors, mostly local people from the town. Very few came from out
of town since the radio warned that there will be floods in the low
rivers (but we are high and not low but most people don't realise it.)
I set up my pillow and a lot of my lace. People were quite amazed
since they have never seen any hand made laced. All were admiring it
and especially my patience . Now they could also understand why
selling hand made lace was kind of out of the questions if you didn't
have sufficient funds. I was happy to be able, at least , to promote
lace a little bit. Many of the people have seen a piece or two of my
work before but have never seen how it is done. The bobbins also made
a big im[pression. All those lovely Midland painted bobbins with
their beaded spangles were a big hit.
But there was another special guest. This was a young girl who came
especially on the bus (a three hours trip in bad weather) . She has
started to learn lacemaking with a tutor in her home town . That
tutor has learned her lace from the same lady who taught me.
Unfortunately she is passing on the same things she learnt but she
never went further on to learn a bit more about lace making. I had a
few weeks ago a long conversation with her and then e-mailed her a
few pictures of my lace. She didn't know such techniques even
existed. I sent her a picture of a simple Buckspoint, a Milanese and
a Honiton. At least her pupil wanted to widen her horizon a bit. She
was just standing and gaping at the different types of lace I could
show her. I have told her about Arachne and she plans to subscribe.
Since she speaks writes and reads English (not like her tutor) and is
computer litterate I guess she will surf the web and see some of the
beautiful lace some of you have on your websites.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to see much of the works of the other
artists since I had to stay put where I was, but I squeezed in two
wonderful exhibits and plan to call those people for another visit.
Our next project is an exhibition during the New Year period
(September). Unfortunately this is an exhibition with a theme - being
again the (eternal) desert. Photos have to be handed in by the end of
May, so I guess this one will be without me. I tried to explain to
the organizer she should tell the curators that lace isn't done in
one week. I might just take something old and give it an exotic name
like desert wind or thistles in the wind or something like that.
People do give strange names to their work when they want to have it on show.
Then will have another open house in the fall.
It was a nice idea, many mistakes were made in organizing the two
days, very little publ;icity was given to it. But it was the first
time and now the organizers will have to learn from the mistakes so
they can be better next time and make new mistakes.
Miriam
in Arad where very hot weather is predicted for the next few days.
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