Hi Nancy Thank you so much for the video links and I've watched them all this morning. However, like yourself, my French is pretty much non-existent so not able to know if they divulged the brand of thread that they use to make their Alencon lace, but I doubt very much that they would have done! I really don't think the Tourist Board would be willing to share this information either. I'm inclined to agree with you about the lace on the heading of their page but the image is so poor that I couldn't really be certain as some of the areas do look very similar to some of the needlelace filling - surely they wouldn't make such a dreadful error, but who knows!
Many thanks once again for the time and trouble you have taken on my behalf. Happy lacemaking Catherine Catherine Barley Needlelace www.catherinebarley.com ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 11/02/2017 - 20:13 (GMTST) To : [email protected] Cc : [email protected] Subject : Re: [lace] lappets Catherine, I didn't see an answer to your question about Alencon lace, but I don't get all the [lace] messages, so everybody forgive me if I duplicate someone else's answer. Yes, it is apparently still made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hI1uz0p9sk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_7lwhYEUCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBws14YwHgw My French is close to non-existent, so I don't know if there's enough info in those to provide a lead to find out what thread they use. Maybe write to the Tourism Bureau to see if they could put you in touch with someone? http://www.holidays-alencon.com/discover/point-dalencon-lacework (The page cracks me up, however--maybe I'm losing it, but the lace in the heading on their page is not Alencon needle-lace but rather is Belgian bobbin-lace, if I'm not mistaken.) Nancy Connecticut, USA On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Catherine Barley < [email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know what brand of thread is currently used in France to make > their Alencon lace or even if anyone does actually still make Alencon lace? > - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
