RE: [lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers
Dear Brenda, Thank you for your reply about lacemakers in Scotland. I have just spent about three hours on the computer looking up the site and links you gave me. I haven't made a break-through but it has been most interesting - watch this space if I do! Ina >From near Byron Bay, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Bedfordshire lacemakers
Dear Liz, I have a similar story to you - my Great grandmother made lace but she was born in Kirkmabreck, Scotland about 1835 and at the time of the 1851 census she was listed as a scholar aged 16. I would dearly like to know if she made lace as a living or just indulged as we do. Please, is there a Lacemakers' Census for Scotland? The two census lists of both Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire lacemakers was a talking point when I took them along to a Family History Meeting last Saturday. Yes, we should have listened more to our elders and the stories they had to tell. Greetings from Ina who lives near the 'most easterly point in Australia" - Byron Bay - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] looong lace blog
To the looong lace ladies, I have often made garters for relatives and friends and on completion admired my handiwork. However when I think of the fate of the garters, I make another from bought lace. I clearly label each garter, as the garters are usually for non-lacemakers who wouldn't know the difference, then I give both garters to the bride to be. In Australia, part of the wedding ritual is for the bridegroom to remove the garter at the wedding breakfast and hurl it into the midst of the wedding guests. I don't mind the machine made lace garter being thrown away so long as the hand made lace is preserved for prosperity. Pat Milne's Torchon garter in Orange Blossom design makes up well with a blue gimp and blue ribbon for the 'something blue' in the wedding rhyme. Ina in Wollongbar, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
