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Kumiko will be visiting again the fall, 2023.  Her workshop is scheduled in Woodbridge, CT, from 10/6 to 10/10.  She will be teaching Binche and other laces such as Flanders Lace, Paris, Rosaline, Bruges Flower Laces, and Duchesse.  Interested?  Please contact Sumiko Tray.

We are saddened to learn that Pamela Nottingham, the author of wonderful lace books and respected teacher, passed away on May 12, 2023.

Story about a program for women recovering from Hansen's disease to make lace. Has echoes of the long history of lace as an educational route for the churches.

Iloilo’s ex-hansenite lacemakers seek market boost

A new member of the Fremont community, but not a new at all to the Bay Area, is the Lace Museum that will be reopening its doors in Fremont for the first time on Mothers' Day weekend...

The Fremont Podcast

Episode at this link, or search your podcast app for The Fremont Podcast.

Check out that roller pillow! I have never seen one with the roller oriented that way.

Take your time, do bobbin lace!

Hi!

I am not able to attend the meeting on May 6.  I have paid for coffee and lunch. If someone wants to take my place, it is all yours.  Please contact me and I will pass your name to the organizers. My contact information is in the directory.

Sumiko Tray

There was recently a small discussion of the amazing lace-like cut book of Marie de’ Medici, and this other book just came my way today. It is too early to be lace, I think the idea of the stonework on the cathedral makes sense.

Still, it's just lovely, even if 1300s is too early for it to be a lace imitation.

A Cut Above the Rest…? Unraveling the Mystery of the Walters “Lace” Manuscript

Lynley Anne Herbert

I was looking for something else in The Met today, and came across this remarkably colorful piece. 

I don't really have anything else to add, but wanted to capture it before I moved on to what I really wanted.

Capuchin 1725-1750

What I really wanted: American 1820-1829 black silk cloak with a Ipswich-like trim.

I was alerted today that Louise West's husband had died this morning. There was a recent hospitalization and some hope that a new treatment path would be the right thing, but apparently that's not the outcome. 

I'm told it's out there on facebook now, so if you want to look for more on that it's around. 

I have a contact email for Louise if anyone wants it, but I don't want to post it publicly. Let me know if you would like it and I'll send it.

I was actually looking at this artist's work based on another thing she did for the Sanger Center -- a cholera dress and a syphilis slip -- but looking around her site I found this older work on linen. I was hoping for more science, but it was still a neat video and SPOILERS: ends with lace. Scroll down the page for the video. 

Linen: From the Field.

And if you are curious, here is the pathogen dress set. Cholera and syphilis captured in BioArt .