On Saturday, October 17, the Mansfield Historical Society will host the New England Lace Group for their fall meeting. The group promotes the making, collecting and studying of lace throughout the New ...

DRUMS – Barbara “Barb” McGuire was celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband, Jim, in Bruges, Belgium, when she fell in love. “We went to a chocolate factory and there was a ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...

Samples of lace made in Ipswich, Massachusetts, were obtained in the course of the first U.S. Census, in 1789, and stored among the papers of Alexander Hamilton, who had been charged with taking the ...

KONIAKOW, Poland (AP) — Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little ...

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Philomena is perhaps one of the last of the Bruges lace makers in Kochi. The 78-year-old from Aroor is known for her complex patterns using 26 bobbins. Lace-making and hand embroidery came to Kochi ...

Analysis: The Co Galway town was a big player in Irish lacemaking and a new community initiative is reviving that craft for the future Irish lace was a highly sought after luxury commodity, used to ...

KONIAKÓW, Poland -- Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little ...