Hi Arachnids,
Gon, thank you very much for writing your blog and keeping it rich in lace
content with lots of photos. You seem to be extremely busy. It is lovely to
see a good number of younger women making lace although there do not seem to
be any children as for instance in Portugal or Idrija.
Just for interest sake, where are there children's groups, either as classes
or clubs with some tuition? I used to run a group (8 to 16 year old), but
there seems to be little interest now. There is the occasional occasion when
a youngster is interested enough to ask for some lessons, but not enough to
form even a small group. Schools here are not interested as they seem to
have little spare time and are unwilling to allow people from outside with
the necessary skills to come in to teach lace (even if they have proper
teaching qualifications and are willing to undergo the necessary checks).
How do other area/countries fare?
Besides demonstrating and 'have-a-go pillows etc. how else can we encourage
young people to come into lacemaking if the schools don't want to know; not
forgetting that we are competing with the media and computer games etc. with
instant gratification. In my immediate area the schools will not even put an
A4 poster up to announce that there is a lace class or lace club starting
(or re-starting) locally :-( I would love to run another lace class :-)
Happy lace making,
Joepie
-----Original Message-----
From: Gon Homburg
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Salon/Kant in Amsterdam
Yes, Sue is right. I forgot the second blog.html.
So the complete url is http://www.kloskant.com/blog/blog/html
Happy lacing
Gon Homburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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