My mom took a bobbin lace class in the mid-80's. This was in the San Fernando
Valley (NW Los Angeles County). The teacher's name was Page, but I don't
remember her last name. The class was through a weaving store. She must have
been a good teacher because she let me sit in on one class when
I can see now that after removing all of the previous posts, I forgot to
leave enough so people would know which publication
I was talking about. I have to say, this is actually the thing that has
prevented me from posting more over the years. With Gmail,
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1. Michael Auclair was a good friend of mine. We were both members of the now
defunct Lace Guild of New York. I believe I was the only person in our shared
lace orbit ever invited to his upper East Side cold water walk-up flat. He was
passionate about his lace, and liked to pick my brain about embr
On 5/14/18 9:09 PM, Kim Davis wrote:
It is known as Lacis now, but was first called
The Lace Place.
For a time, there was a mail-order business called "Some
Place". I had a really terrible time telling people where I
got the things I bought from them. I don't know *when* the
name was chang
He is deceased. Sadly, I believe he was an early victim of AIDs.
Devon
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
wrote:
> There was a young man from New York City who was interested in lace in the
> period? Michael Auclair? Does anyone know about him? Present or past? Any
> phone n
There was a young man from New York City who was interested in lace in the
period? Michael Auclair? Does anyone know about him? Present or past? Any
phone numbers or emails? ... I could imagine Bobby meeting him
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:05 AM, Kim Davis wrote:
> In case anyone ever wants to
In case anyone ever wants to look at hard copies, we have the complete set
at The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA.
Kimâ
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Hello Devon
The online source is the weaving archive, subsection documents relating to
lace, search Periodicals.
The archive url is in the link I posted.
(I hope you understand, I'm keying this from my iPod)
Good to know further information on the young man in New York!
Bev in Shirley BC west c
Dear Bev,
You seem to have a set of pdf's of the IOLI Bulletin? Are these
available somewhere?
The young man from New York City who teaches lacemaking would have
been Michael Auclair. He was very interested in the Ipswich laces, and
Irish laces, too, I think. He did some lace appraising, even for
m
Hello Sharon and everyone
Could your protagonist drive to San Bernardino? In this 1981 issue of the
IOLI Bulletin, there is an article, page 13 of the pdf, about the forming
of a new group of bobbin lacers, the Cross Twisters of San Bernadino,
wherein they invite anyone in the area of the County M
He probably would have met up with Kaethe Kliot (please double check
spelling of her first name) from Lacis in Berkeley. It is known as Lacis
now, but was first called The Lace Place. I do not know when the name
changed precisely offhand, but you should be able to search that easily
enough. Kaet
For my novel, Bobby is attending the University of California Santa Cruz.
It is academic year 1984-1985. (He will be spending the summer of 1985 in
New York.)
He wants to take a class in lace making. It could be bobbin or needle lace
or both.
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