Do you remember my basket collection? Baskets collected from all corners of the world. Well, baskets are not the only thing I look for when I travel. In a glass cupboard in my studio (may be I should call my studio a travel museum.....) I keep a special box with lace, in the box I also have books, postcards and pamflets about the old lace industry from a wide range of places.
Vadstena in Sweden is known for its bobbin lace, and in the Elsa Peterson Bobbin Lace Shop I found this 87 years old lady selling the most beautiful pieces of handmade lace. She soon recognized my interest and told stories and showed me the different patters. I left the shop with a handkerchief and a bookmark, small, perfect pieces which I let glide through my fingers from time to time. True eye candies.
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April 2007, Marta, Terje, my dear Austrian friend Dagmar and I visted Burano in the Venezian lagoon. It was hard to look at anything else than the colourful houses on Burano, but if I did, my eyes were drawn to old ladies sitting outside their houses making lace. I don't think I will ever understand how they manage all the thin threads which are used the make the intricate patters.
A tablecloth, handkerchiefs and bookmarks are my memories from several visits to Burano.
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It was the summer of 2005. My mother celebrated her 75th birthday that year, and decided to give a special birthday gift to her family -a trip to Malta/Gozo. There were 18 of us, the oldest was my mum, the youngest was a bouquet of cousins celebration the fun of their lives. Tedre, on the small island of Gozo, I found a lively lace tradition. Old and new pieces, small and big. And some found their way into my suitcase.
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India is less then two weeks away. I wonder what I will find there to bring home as travel memories.
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Woooops, I almost forgot to mention Jesurum in Venezia. They have an outlet store close to "my flat" in Canareggio, and I go, see, buy every time I am in Venezia.
Who can resist their Botticelli Collection?
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Another lace lover is Pinar in Istanbul. I am hereby making her blog my Blog of the Week.
