And of course in London is the V&A, which has marvellous lace.
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To add to my earlier posting about Bedford & Luton museums, another
place worth a visit is the Costume Museum in Bath. Although they don't
have a "Lace " collection as such, many of the costumes have lace on
them. What I would recommend though is to contact the Curator and make
an appointment to see the reserve collection, just ask for items with
lace. When I last went they bought out a wonderful selection of gowns,
wedding dresses, copes/capes, and a beautiful very early glove with
silver lace cuffs. My friend & I were allowed to draw, photograph and
(wearing gloves) pick up the pieces to examine closely. The museum
provided cotton gloves, but I find these too thick to feel the delicacy
of the lace, so took my own surgical type latex gloves, which they
permitted me to wear. We spent 5 hours there, and it could have been
longer, only the museum was closing for the day!
