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Article: `Lace Makers' weaves a charming tale
The Boston Globe;  October 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... few opening pages, Heather Barbieri's "The Lace Makers of Glenmara" plunges ... field, mostly "The Lace Makers" is fairly predictable ... Brookline. BOOK REVIEW THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA By Heather Barbieri Harper Collins, 271 ...

Article: Lace-makers good enough for a Queen
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 11, 2008 ;     617 words ... ... a great deal of work for many of the lace-makers in Honiton and round and about. It ... and requires natural light, as few lace-makers could see even by oil lamp. There were lace-makers' lamps on sale by now, but their feeble ...

Article: Lace makers in the spotlight
Evening Mail;  April 9, 1999 ;     357 words ... ... Mayor of Birmingham's robes. Members of the Birmingham City Lace-Makers for the Millennium club, which meets every week at Hall Green ... s robes and those of his official town crier. One of the lace-makers Sue Davies said: "I know Nottingham is the most well-known ...

Article: Village lace makers' work reap rewards.
Northumberland Gazette (Alnwick, England);  April 26, 2008 ;     423 words ...YOUNG lace makers from Rothbury have won another award for their talents. The Rothbury Young Lace Makers group, the only one of its kind in Northumberland, won an international competition last year, and have now won awards at the Morpeth Gathering ...

Article: A day laced with tradition; HUNDREDS TURN OUT TO SEE NORTH ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  April 7, 2009 ;     636 words ...Byline: DAN WARBURTON LACE MAKERS came together to keep the tradition alive and kicking in a special ... early retirement she is now the chairwoman of the Northumberland Lace Makers association. More than 150 lace enthusiasts from across Northumberland ...

Article: No thongs of praise from Polish priest as ...
The Independent on Sunday;  August 8, 2004 ;     597 words ... ... stringi that are funding his contributions." Until 1989, the old regime's support for "folk craft" meant the village lace-makers enjoyed a regular income stocking state-owned handicraft shops. But since the shops were privatised, business has fallen ...

Article: summer's best; fiction.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... should inspire readers to "carpe diem." THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA Heather Barbieri (Harper Collins, 268 pages, $24.99 ... Glenmara on Ireland's west coast. Author Heather Barbieri examines with searching intelligence Kate ...