Also, Spring Fling happened annually for many years, then every other year
for many more. Last year was the kast full-fledged version, however.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:52 PM H M Clarke <hcl...@mac.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
>
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