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DRUMS – Barbara “Barb” McGuire was celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband, Jim, in Bruges, Belgium, when she fell in love. “We went to a chocolate factory and there was a lace ...

Traditional lace is white and delicate, made as much from thread as it is from air. In Poland, this special craft intertwines ...

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then. By the 1730s ...

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KONIAKOW, Poland (AP) — Wiesława Juroszek was only 6 years old when she learned the intricate handicraft of lace crocheting from the women in her family as part of a long tradition in their little ...