I have just recently had the good fortune to meet a lovely Romanian woman who lives in Portland, Maine, and in the course of our conversation I found that she had a small collection of Romanian point laces made by her mother and mother in law in the 1970s. She was kind enough to photograph them for me, and to write a short article explaining them. This is the first opportunity we have had to post anything in Romanian on the Archives web site, so if anyone out there would like to read the article in this language, we were thinking of you. For the rest of us, she made a nice translation into English.
What I like about this collection is that it is the work of ordinary housewives, at home, using traditional patterns exchanged and varied as desired between neighbors and friends. We all know Angela Thompson's extensive exploration into the subject, and I was able to show my copy of Romanian Point Lace to Marina, who was quite amazed to think that something that she considers so ordinary to be of such interest to lacemakers around the world. See <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/sm_2009.pdf> Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Falmouth, Maine, USA, where it has been raining for at least two weeks. Today it is so dark that I have had to turn on the lights in the house at ten in the morning to see my way around! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
