HI Clay,
Thankyou for your message.
In the 26 years I have lived here we have only had two actual lace
exhibitions in our town. this years Lace Day was the 10th annual lace day
we have held but there in 1992 and back in 2005 or 6, I can't remember which
year, we held the Annual Lace day for Catalunya in our town which is the big
one for the region when the numbers of participants have to be limited to
3,000 otherwise it gets unmanageable.
That big event is organised by the Assoc. of Lacemakers of Catalunya and the
town council of the town going to hold the event. Each year two towns put
their names forward to be elected to hold the event and at the Association's
AGM the members vote for their choice between those two towns. The two
towns will have done some planning before they put themselves forward for
the vote otherwise they would never get it organised in time if they were
chosen by the vote.
The AGM is usually held at the end of January and the event usually takes
place either in April, May or June. So not a lot of time to organise
something form scratch if you have planned well ahead. I don't know how
they do it. But given that lace days here are usually held in the streets
or in a town square or large park etc., there is no hall to be booked so
that helps. They just have to hire a lot of chairs and tables. The tables,
or sometimes a long beam set up in front of the rows of chairs, are for the
Spanish style pillows to be propped up against so that work can commence.
Those pillows are the long sausage shaped pillows used mostly in Southern
Europe and would traditionally have been propped against a house wall or the
back of another chair or something.
Today at our lace day they had also set up those fabric type of gazebos over
the tables for shade because it was so hot and humid and the sun was blazing
down on the sea front all morning.
As it was a big fiesta today our town hall brought out the towns Giants, a
male and female to visit the lace makers. These figures must be about 8
feet tall with a person, or maybe two I don't know for sure, inside them to
move them about. They must be heavy to shift about as they are so big. the
female was very well endowed in the chest area. These are a traditional
thing in Spain and you might have seen this type of Giant on the television
at sometime. This page of wikipedia shows some photos of the type of thing
I mean, Literally translated it means Giants and Big Heads.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_y_cabezudos
Regards
Jenny
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