Neither do we in Canada have a national organisation. A national magazine in English is privately run. Canada is a huge country geographically but not heavily populated and especially not with lacemakers :p I believe there about the same number of French-Canadian lacemakers in the province of Quebec as there are in all of English Canada. Canada is the home of the longest living lace group, since 1919, the Denman & District Lace Club has been meeting regularly, begun by an English woman who was visiting the area on Vancouver Island. At one time the group was quite large. I think there are about 20 active lacemakers in that group now (perhaps one of them if she is reading this will confirm). My conservative guess is 500 lacemakers, call it 1000 for Miriam's census ;)
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Jeanette Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In South Africa there is probably no more than 500 lacemakers and that is > aiming very high! So I find it difficult to believe Canada has only 500. > We do not even have a national organisation. > Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape,South Africa. > > > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
