Re: [lace] "Antique Indian Plains Lace bobbins"

2017-01-03 Thread Cynce Williams
I don’t know about plains indians, but my sister saw some Indian made and designed lace, I think she said it was in a museum in Wisconsin Dells. So that would make it northeast forest Indians. Cynthia On Jan 2, 2017, at 11:29 PM, wrote: > I have challenged the seller, but perhaps some of our

Odp: [lace] "Antique Indian Plains Lace bobbins"

2017-01-03 Thread B Krbechek
Brido11 wrote. . . perhaps some of our American members can tell me if the Colonial missionaries taught lace to the Plains Indian An Episcopal Missionary, Bishop Whipple, established several 'lace schools' in Minnesota among both the Dakota and Chippewa Indians. The women who taught in those s

RE: [lace] "Antique Indian Plains Lace bobbins"

2017-01-02 Thread Noelene Lafferty
Here's a Tiny URL to Brian's link, which gets split into two lines by Arachne and won't work that way: http://tinyurl.com/h8tj3fc There was an article in Piecework fairly recently about lacemaking being taught to Native Americans in the past, but I can't lay my hands on my copy at the moment. Noe

[lace] "Antique Indian Plains Lace bobbins"

2017-01-02 Thread brido11
I found a description on eBay of what to me are Cleary two English lace bobbins. There is a very large price attached to the article. I have challenged the seller, but perhaps some of our American members can tell me if the Colonial missionaries taught lace to the Plains Indians? I might have to