>From: lynrbai...@supernet.com >Sent: Mar 26, 2018 9:51 AM >To: Devon Thein <dmt11h...@aol.com> >Subject: RE: [lace] Lace Revival of the 1970s > >Dear Devon, read your email the first time I woke up at 6. Now 9:20 and my >coffee is brewing. Decadent hours. I was thinking about lacemaking in the >US, and possibilities as to why it became 'popular' in the '70's. I think one >reason is the refugees after WWII brought it with them. And don't forget >Susan Wenzel took lace classes while her husband was stationed in England. I >don't know about California, where lace is amazingly popular, but I bet there >was some kind of impetus. I know that a lady named Betty, last name unknown, >a lacemaking British transplant to Atlant, GA was a driving force in that >area. Then there's Doris Southard in Iowa, whose book was published in the >'70's. Don't know how or why she learned lace, but maybe it's in her book. >It's the one I used to actually learn. The only such book in any library I >looked in, and I am a library person. I don't think the Bicentennial had much >to do with it. But I do think the back-to-the-earth movement would ha! ve a big part. Anyhow, that's my two cents. lrb > >"My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, >please ignore it. I read your emails."
Lyn from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, presently in the Phoenix, Arizona valley, where the weather is boring. Sunny, warm, dry, light breeze, shorts and sandals weather every day. - 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/
