April 5, 2010
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Like spun sugar.
Snow white.
Sicilian lace, full of grace.
It’s women’s work, an eye-straining affair.
Twenty years ago Sicily’s shops brimmed with handmade local lace. Now it’s often made in China.
Sicily’s art of lacemaking is dying, and isn’t that a shame?
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Note for tourists: There’s a fine little museum of Sicilian hand embroidery and lace in Chiaramonte Gulfi in southeastern Sicily (a hilltop village also known for its olive oil museum and pork restaurant, Majore).
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Thanks everyone for all the great comments you’ve left in the last few weeks. It was hard to choose a winner in the contest, but finally, with my husband’s help, I narrowed it down to Melissa Muldoon, for the comment she left 
