In reply to a couple correspondents around the globe:
Wear lace has been my mantra, in lower case letters, for many years.
And, I have had many feedback arguments from Arachne members that they don't
(or won't) wear lace. A few of us believe that you must wear lace, to
generate lace
Jeri
The lace brooch backer is a good idea.
Lorelei
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Leave it to you, Tess, to come up with an excellent model of how to raise
awareness. It is an excellent way to start. Although lace bombing is another
way to put lace in front of the public, and, hopefully, get people wondering
what it is. Almost any way to put handmade lace in front of the
One thing to consider might be to start with curators who think that museums
are only for paint and paper and such. Many are young women these days, and
they knit and wear machine made lace; they just haven't connected their
personal interests with their professional ones. So here's what is
Hello All! Thank you for discussing this topic yet again! IMHO a broader view
of what is lace? would help. This is where modern lace can really shine
the oversized lace hanging from the ceiling somewhere in Manchester (museum?)
is a case in point. It was huge couldn't be ignored--sort of
Susan writes:
Purists would argue against spontaneous opera at the mall but it makes
the news cycle YouTube. Lacemakers, we need to go viral!
Is there a lace equivalent to Yarn Bombing?
Devon
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What is yarn bombing?
Karen in Malta
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Karen,
Yarn bombing is when people decorate fixed (or not) objects in public
with knitted or crocheted cozies. Sometimes they just even wrap yarn around
objects like lamp posts, railings, parking meters, trees, bike racks, statues,
etc. If you do a google search for yarn bombing you will see
The spontaneous opera or other similar performances are generally
called flash mobs I think, where the performers appear to be just
part of the crowd in a mall, etc. and gradually assemble into a
performing ensemble, then dissipate back into the crowd. What about
a group of lacemakers setting
