>On Sunday, Sep 28, 2003, at 07:38 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz) >wrote: > >> Just a question to the spiders though, does anyone know of a supplier >> in the >> UK who sells insect pins (and I don't just mean lace suppliers). >>
Just a thought - in the early 1980s Phil and I were on holiday (those wonderful times pre-daughters!) in the south of England - we stayed at Petworth, and visited St Mary's Butterfly Museum, which I'm pretty sure was near Chichester. A quick search on Google hasn't revealed a site - in fact, searching under butterfly museums for the UK is hopeless, though I'm sure there is also one in Stratford. Anyway, St Mary's had a policy then of selling some of their duplicate butterflies, and it made me wonder if museums of that type might be a possible source? Whilst searching, I had a look at the Hampshire Museums website, and was drawn by the following two links - not exactly lace related, but might be of interest as they are textiles: http://www.hants.gov.uk/austen/pelisse.html This page shows front and back views of a pelisse said to have been worn by Jane Austen, and gives quite a bit of information about the garment, which is in their collection. http://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/willis/news.html The main reason I looked at this is that Willis is my sister's (married) surname! However, it relates to the Basing Embroidery, which from the picture is a very impressive piece of stumpwork. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
