Dear Adele, Thank you so much for letting us know about this video. I was so surprised when I saw the lady who was talking about Honiton Lace - Val was one of my students in my early lace teaching days. She started with Torchon and progressed to Bedfordshire. Then she moved - to Honiton no less, where Cynthia Voysey became her teacher. Val had one big advantage over me - she is short sighted, so she just removed her glasses and could see what she was doing. Even with mine on I struggle with Honiton and prefer to enlarge the patterns by 200%!
The Daily Mail has a lot of close up photos of the Christening dress. The website is here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2472989/Prince-Georges-christening-R oyal-family-St-James-baptism-Kate-Williams-baby.html?ICO=most_read_module or this one http://tinyurl.com/p8cbggc There is also an interesting article about the other Royal babies who've been baptised in the original dress. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2473011/Prince-George-christening- replica-christening-gown-1841-Queen-Victorias-daughter.html or http://tinyurl.com/qefjonb Angela Kelly, who made the replica dress, is the Queen's Personal Assistant, Advisor and Curator. Yesterday I read the book which Angela wrote about the Queen's wardrobe for the Jubilee year. (Angela's job title doesn't indicate her talents as designer and dressmaker.) Liz Pass In Poole, Dorset, UK where the weather is dull but relatively mild. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
