Hello everyone, I hope you're all having a wonderful week!
As many of you know, I started a new job in October as the Collections Specialist at the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My job mainly consists of holding viewings of textiles with curators, conservators, and members of the public. I am also responsible for pulling things in and out of storage and carefully unpacking and repacking them. This means that I get to see a lot of incredible lace, as it makes up 5,000 pieces of our 33,000 piece collection! Today we had a visitor from California named Deborah Valoma who is interested in meeting other Armenian lacemakers in the U.S. and beyond. She is the former head of the Textiles Department at the California College of Arts in Northern California, and recently inherited a collection of over 200 pieces of lace made by her Armenian grandmother. Does anyone know of any Armenian lacemakers that I can connect her with? She would be so thrilled to get in touch. She also has a young student in her program who makes lace that she's going to put me in touch with. She was really intrigued by the "Lace, Not Lace" catalogue that was sitting out in the Ratti Library so I gave her a copy that Devon had left for us to share. How nice to be surprised with a visiting lacemaker! Thanks in advance everyone for your help! Any and all information would be great. All the Best, Elena - 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/
