Prospective Lace Museum in Ireland Needs Help

[Lisaizme]

I got this in email on crochetpartners and thought Crochetville members might want to help out too.

 

I wrote and said that I was from the US and one of my longtime dreams was to visit Ireland and If I ever get to make that dream come true, I'd love to be able to visit a Lace museum.

 

LACE SCHOOL IN IRELAND HELP NEEDED

 

A very dedicated group of people in Co. Mayo are trying to turn the

building that housed the Muings Lace School into a museum. It is

envisaged that the museum will exhibit Irish crochet lace and hand

knitting with other traditional crafts. There will also be lectures,

courses, workshops in traditional crafts, including crochet lace,

local history, research etc, for adults and children.

 

This part of Ireland has been left behind by the Celtic Tiger Economy

and could do with the extra jobs generated by increased visitor numbers.

 

Fibre crafts in general need all the help they can get in Ireland at

the moment. Wool shops are closing. Tivoli Mills are discontinuing

most of their wool yarns and importing only novelty yarns. I had a

long search to just find 100% wool I could felt recently.

 

You can read about the project here:

 

http://www.laceschool.com/

 

You can help by sending emails of support to laceschool@hotmail.com .

If you would be likely to visit such a place it would be useful to

mention this. I have sent off an email myself but funding boards

would be much more impressed by letters from overseas. They will be

making their presentation to the funding body on Wednesday 15

February so need these messages of support as soon as possible.

 

I am not personally involved in this project and have no affiliation

with it.

 

Thanks

 

Lynda

Co. Cork, Ireland

lyndau@mac.com

[Gran]

Thanks for the post. It's a very interesting project.