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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