In a message dated 12/17/2004 10:41:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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By the way, lots of people know how to make needle lace. Granted, our
numbers are puny compared to the number of bobbin-lace makers. Still,
we are here!
Of course the question stunned me because
I don't know about ethical repairs, or what demand there might be
for that. The lace repairs that I have actually seen were done for
people (who admittedly had $$) wanting their repaired item to look as
nearly as possible the way it did when it was new. Certainly the
thread _had_ to match (a
Today at the Ratti Christmas party I found myself talking to a woman from
Textile Conservation. I mentioned that I had had an inquiry about finding
someone to repair tatting. She said, There are people who do that sort of
thing.
I asked her for names and she provided two that I had already
