Speaking from my family’s perspective, my grandmother learnt as a child in the 1910s. This was at some local girls’ club in Suffolk. Then she married and had a family (obviously!) and lace was put away. When she was sadly widowed in the early 1960s she went back to making lace. She showed my sisters the rudiments of making lace in the 1970s (I was considered too young - or too difficult?) which she had never done with her daughters.
I’m wondering whether others of her generation were similarly finding time in retirement to return to lace in the 1960s and 70s thereby kickstarting another revival? Helen who originally lived in lacemaking areas in England before learning to make it in Canada! > On Mar 26, 2018, at 07:59, DevonThein <devonth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am attempting to write a catalog for the Lace, not Lace: Contemporary Fiber > Art from Lacemaking Techniques. > The exhibit will include the work of Ros Hills, Lieve Jerger, and Jill > Nordfors Clark who I consider to have begun their activity during the lace > revival of the 1970s. If I were to try to establish a context for what was > happening in lace at that time, what are the most important things that I > would touch on? > - 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/
