Lace and longevity sometimes go hand-in-hand. Petronella runs circles
around others half her age, double difficult because she is well under 5 feet
tall. We walked back to the hotel after the OIDFA banquet in 2008 - well,
I walked, she ran. A native of The Netherlands, she immigrated to
Over here in Australia, a lacemaker was awarded an Order of Australia in the
Birthday Honours - Petronella Wensing who lives in Canberra.
She has some lace on (?)permanent show in the national museum.
I had the privilege of going to a 2 day workshop she gave here in Melbourne
about 5 years ago -
Tamara wrote:
I wonder if the Princess Ann's visit (that Jacqui
wrote about:
http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/midweekherald/flatfiles/features/2005/
anne/anne.aspx
is an instance of scouting :)
No, it doesn't work like that. The Queen (or Prince Charles) just dishes the
honours out to
whoever
Wonderful news this morning, Pat Read has been awarded an MBE in the
Queen's Birthday honours list.
And about time too.
Swanley lacemakers nominated her two years ago and were thrilled to
discover she has been given this award.
The listing reads that she has been awarded this for
WOW, that is really amazing, fantastic news. There couldn't be a better,
more deserving award person for all she has done teaching so many people with
so
many types of lace in general and with the research and development of
Milanese in particular.
I must practise my curtsey!
Jacquie
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To
Congratulations to Pat.
That is great news - that a Lacemaker has been recognised for her skills in
the craft.
So many others get noticed for doing strange things with other crafts, that
it is uplifting to know Lace has been recognised.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz
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So. Who was it that made a series of bobbins honouring lacemakers
who'd been recognised by their sovereigns? We need a new one :)
Chris Parsons -
http://www.lace-bobbins.co.uk/
From Chris's site: he describes these bobbins Memorable Women of Lace
as follows:
Each bobbin will have on it, in
