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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 4281549, member: 13464&quot;]Hi Bluumz,</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve heard reports from other lacemakers who had been in Belgium during that time frame - that to try and save the dying industry; lacemakers were out in the streets in force and although some were actually working &quot;serious&quot;, very spendy pieces... other lacemakers were making pieces that could be worked very quickly as tourist souvenirs. Apparently, when you went in to the lace shops to purchase; the touristy pieces were the ones out to purchase and the &quot;better&quot; pieces were hidden from view - and you would have to ask for &quot;better pieces&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Watching a street full of lacemakers; I&#039;m SURE would be fun...and watching, certainly sent many a tourist to find a lace shop! Not that buying a tourist piece is &quot;bad&quot;... but it is the difference between something that is well worked; and not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it bears repeating... that if you stand IN FRONT of a bobbin lacemaker as she is working - you are watching her upside down and backwards and it REALLY does look more complicated than it is! It is complicated enough (to the novice) without that confusion. IF possible; ask a lacemaker if you may watch from her vantage point by standing BEHIND her/him! It will make all the difference!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheerio, </p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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