But surely there were women with leisure enough to make lace for pleasure,
as we do? And so a scene showing a nicely dressed woman who knew how to make
more than one kind of lace is not unrealistic in my opinion.
The awful picture of poor women and children who could only keep body and
soul together by laboring under difficult conditions until their eyes gave
out is thankfully not the whole story of our favorite pasttime.
Regina
New York
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From: "jeanette" <jeane...@maxitec.co.za>
To: "arachne" <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: [lace] Luton museum
During 1996 four of us had a lace tour with Liz Bartlett and visited all
the
Midlands museums. One museum had a display of a lacemaker sitting in a
cottage making lace and Liz was most upset by the display as she did not
consider it a true reflection of the conditions lacemakers worked under.
I
think this was the Luton Museum and it was the most charming museum of
them
all. She said the room was too grand, the lacemaker was dressed too
smartly
and she also was wearing a lace collar which was unlikely. She was also
working on a Beds piece with a Bucks piece lying around - both difficult
patterns and she said any lacemaker ever worked only one or two patterns
in
her life and did not go from one kind of lace to another as we do. We ,
ignorami from South Africa, thought it was a lovely display!!! We
thought
that most people would just enjoy the display but Liz said that being a
museum it should be factually correct. One museum had a lovely display
of
pincushions. I have all this on video but the video player has decided
to
stop working so I cannot check to see which museum it was. But I do
think
that I saw the bobbins because Liz then gave a talk on the hanging
bobbins.
Factually correct or not, it was a most enjoyable trip. How does the
saying
go - Been there, done that, forgotten most of it!!
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.
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