[lace] Lace Museums in Barcelona area Spain
Hi Jay, When you are in the Barcelona area then you might like to catch a train from perhaps the station at Plaza de Cataluña station which plaza is in the centre of the city and no doubt you will be staying nearby, the station is underground. Take a train going North to Arenys De Mar. Journey approx, 30-40mins. fares very cheap compared to UK. Once you get off the train come out of the station, cross the main road and bear slightly to your right and take the first road on your left, which should be quite a wide road, it is in fact the river bed which has been tarmacced over, the streets has several pavement bars and restaurants. Walk up this road a little way until you come to some steps up to a square where you will see the church. Go to the church and, facing it, walk up the road on the right hand side of the chuch, you will come eventually to the Museo Marés de Puntes. This is a lovely lace museum. It is quite a long way up the narrow road beside the churcn and just beyond the Geology museum. Arenys De Mar and Arenys de Munt, (Arenys of the sea and Arenys of the mountains), were both busy lace making centres in Cataluña. The museum has about 6 floors each consisting a large room, or two, full of glass cabinets containing lots of lace. Lots of Mantons, large cape like articles, and Mantillas, a wedding dress or two and many fans, all sorts of items in various types of lace. Look out the Ret Fà which is Catalan Blonde. Ret Fà meaning fine net. There are a few pieces in other techniques to give a contrast but mostly it is all bobbin lace. This page is about the museum. http://museu.arenysdemar.org/index_i.htm check the opening times as it is not open all day every day. When the OIDFA conference was held in Barcelona in 1994 the ladies that came from England paid a visit to the museum and the general concensus was that it was better than some of the lace museums they had visited in England simply because it had so much lace all in one place. Hope you find time to go to this one it is well worth the effort. Arboç is quite a distance from Barcelona and I have only visited there once when it first opened so I can't comment on that one or how to get there, it would be about an hours drive south of Barcelona, not sure if a train goes there or not. I don't know of a lace museum in Barcelona itself, Barcelona is a province which is like an English county, and covers many towns and villages, Arenys De Mar & Munt are in Barcelona Province. Cataluña is made up of 4 privinces, Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona and Lleida/Lerida. Each province has it "Capital Town" which bears the name of that province. Barcelona is the capital of the region of Cataluña in the north east corner of Spain, the language is Catalan but everyone speaks Castellano too, as a second language. Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. The free time won't be completely finalised until we return home, DH has a knack of attracting commitments as he goes but it seems likely we will be in Spain from 1-5 August - initially in Madrid then in Barcelona, unfortunately not in time for the 'great lace days' but I hope to visit some museums and lace shops. The lace fairy site lists museums in Barcelona, Arenys de Mar, and L'Arcoç. Unfortunately neither DH nor I speak Spanish - are there likely to be English brochures in the museums? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Glossary
>>Dear Antje and the list, I usually lurk, but wanted to pipe in that it would make a lovely addition to our archives, or to the Lace Fairy site, to amass such glossaries of terms particular to lace in as many languages as possible, to aid everyone in their travels and to help us decipher materials in a language not our own. Back to lurking and learning!<< I have a book, paperbook, that I bought at a lace day here years ago called "International Lace Dictionary". It was pulished in Gent/Ghent in 1994. I have the address in the book where orders coul/can be places for copies, but I can't guarantee that the address is current, contact me if you are interested. There is no ISBN number to quote as I believe it was published privately or something. The languages in the book are. English, French, Castellano, German, Dutch, Italian, Potugeuse and Danish. It consists of about 30 pages of translations set out in columns for each language with a total of 630 lace related words being translated. At the back is an index set out by individual languages so that you can find the word you want more easily in the translations. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Museums in Barcelona area, Spain
Re-sending my list below as it bounced back from Jays's address and might not have got through to the arachne list either. I hope Jay, and perhaps others, find it useful. Hi Jay, When you are in the Barcelona area then you might like to catch a train from perhaps the station at Plaza de Cataluña station which plaza is in the centre of the city and no doubt you will be staying nearby, the station is underground. Take a train going North to Arenys De Mar. Journey approx, 30-40mins. fares very cheap compared to UK. Once you get off the train come out of the station, cross the main road and bear slightly to your right and take the first road on your left, which should be quite a wide road, it is in fact the river bed which has been tarmacced over, the streets has several pavement bars and restaurants. Walk up this road a little way until you come to some steps up to a square where you will see the church. Go to the church and, facing it, walk up the road on the right hand side of the chuch, you will come eventually to the Museo Marés de Puntes. This is a lovely lace museum. It is quite a long way up the narrow road beside the churcn and just beyond the Geology museum. Arenys De Mar and Arenys de Munt, (Arenys of the sea and Arenys of the mountains), were both busy lace making centres in Cataluña. The museum has about 6 floors each consisting a large room, or two, full of glass cabinets containing lots of lace. Lots of Mantons, large cape like articles, and Mantillas, a wedding dress or two and many fans, all sorts of items in various types of lace. Look out the Ret Fà which is Catalan Blonde. Ret Fà meaning fine net. There are a few pieces in other techniques to give a contrast but mostly it is all bobbin lace. This page is about the museum. http://museu.arenysdemar.org/index_i.htm check the opening times as it is not open all day every day. When the OIDFA conference was held in Barcelona in 1994 the ladies that came from England paid a visit to the museum and the general concensus was that it was better than some of the lace museums they had visited in England simply because it had so much lace all in one place. Hope you find time to go to this one it is well worth the effort. Arboç is quite a distance from Barcelona and I have only visited there once when it first opened so I can't comment on that one or how to get there, it would be about an hours drive south of Barcelona, not sure if a train goes there or not. I don't know of a lace museum in Barcelona itself, Barcelona is a province which is like an English county, and covers many towns and villages, Arenys De Mar & Munt are in Barcelona Province. Cataluña is made up of 4 privinces, Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona and Lleida/Lerida. Each province has it "Capital Town" which bears the name of that province. Barcelona is the capital of the region of Cataluña in the north east corner of Spain, the language is Catalan but everyone speaks Castellano too, as a second language. Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. The free time won't be completely finalised until we return home, DH has a knack of attracting commitments as he goes but it seems likely we will be in Spain from 1-5 August - initially in Madrid then in Barcelona, unfortunately not in time for the 'great lace days' but I hope to visit some museums and lace shops. The lace fairy site lists museums in Barcelona, Arenys de Mar, and L'Arcoç. Unfortunately neither DH nor I speak Spanish - are there likely to be English brochures in the museums? - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace Maker Plays.
I have seen a play here, in Catalan, a number of years ago about a lacemaker. I never did know what it was called nor who wrote it and don't think it can be the same play that has been discussed ont he list. The local lace ladies here told me one afternoon that the next evening they were going to the local theatre to watch a play about a lace maker, did I want to go with them? I went though I don't understand Catalan too well and could not see the actors mouths too clearly, I need to lip read Catalan as well as listen to it as it is so different to Castellano, which I have learnt. The play that I saw was about a young lacemaker whose intended was going off to Cuba to make his fortune. There was a very tearful farewell and she stayed at home with her parents and siblings making lace until his return. He was away for a few years and when he did return he came back with a Cuban wife. The young lacemaker eventually died of a broken heart. Where I live on the Costa Brava there were many families whose sole income came from fishing or farming, females making lace to supplement the income, and many of the young men went off to south america to seek their fortune. They came back very rich and built large houses, we still have one or to of those houses here in our town, our town hall is one of them and another is the towns museum. In the play the lacemaker was of course using a Catalan pillow, a long cylindrical pillow which is slightly flattened at the top end, there are other cylindrical pillows I have seen here that come from other regions. Those from the Camarin(y)as area, for example, have two sticks, like lengths of broom handles, sticking out of the top end on either side, these sticks are to prop the pillow against the house wall and they keep the pillow itself off the roughstone wall so that the fabric doesn't get worn. Some pillows have a piece of leather fixes over the back side of the top end to protect the pillow from the wall that it is propped against. Regards Jenny DeAngelis. Spain. < The article about the play was written by Lia Baumeister, and the play is "Do�a Rosita la soltera" by F. Garcia Lorca as performed by the Poncel Group Amsterdam (about 1999, going by other dates in the magazine). The original article seems to have gone through a few iterations before it was printed in the English supplement to the magazine - so I'll paraphrase it rather than quote it: "The objective of playwright Frederico Garcia Lorca when he wrote the play was to portray a hyprocritical provincial society. It is located in Granada, Spain; Albaic�n to be exact. In a subtle way the play expresses the complex relation of Lorca with his birthplace. The aunt in the play is a 'lacemaker.' >> - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
