Hello Dee, the Kantcentrum is still existing - it just moved. I assume it’s bigger than before, but I couldn’t visit it yet since when I was there on our way back to Berlin from the Normandy we were too late (it closes at 17:00). The new address is Balstraat 16. On the other side of the street is the museum shop - very small but crammed with lace. All hand made for reasonable prices. Well, if 140.000 € for a genuine Chantilly triangular shawl is reasonable, but I guess it is. The shops in the town centre are just tourist traps with mostly machine made lace.
Best, Achim. > I was in Brugge 15 yrs ago and really enjoyed the lace museum. I visited > the city again last month and was disappointed to find that the museum was > no longer there. Furthermore, stores were selling most lace pieces for > really cheap, too cheap to have been made by hand, in my opinion. However, > there were few pieces that appeared to be handmade from the look of pin > holes. - 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/
