I met Maire Treanor last summer while taking her Clones Lace workshop in Berkeley at Lacis. She is a wonderful woman, and is writing a series of articles for Interweave Crochet magazine on Irish Crochet lace. She asked if she could use one of my photos for her article that appears in the Spring issue. OF COURSE SHE COULD! We had taken a field trip to the Sunnyvale lace museum and there was a piece of actual Clones lace there, made in Ireland. All of their other "Irish Crochet" is from the US. Maire could tell the difference between the Irish and the non-Irish, from the thread used to make the lace. US lace is made with mercerized cotton and antique Irish Crochet from Ireland is made from non-mercerized cotton or linen. I had photographed many of the lace pieces with motifs that were interesting to me, and she remembered that I had an image of the Clones piece.
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