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The Plimoth Jacket, bucket list item checked!
Mary Mangan 9/20/26 Mary Mangan 9/20/26

The Plimoth Jacket, bucket list item checked!

The reproduction 17th century garment known as the Plimoth Jacket is vibrant and wonderful. We had a field trip with our lace group to view it in September 2026.

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We loved the bright and light space for our first #IpswichMA class, and we are doing another one. Right in the center of Ipswich, down the street from where Mary Baker taught #IpswichLace 200 years ago. This time it's intensive: it's the whole 12- On the most perfect fall day in #IpswichMA, we had a tea party yesterday! It had wonderful foods including the #GeorgeWashington cake, Liberty Tea, and more. It was in the Meeting House, and there was lace on every table. A local student talked a #BobbinLace for #robots? As much as I love historical bobbin laces, lace of the future also intrigues me! This #MaterialsScience paper is a little over my head, but I'm going to try to understand it later this week when I have some time to dig in I have wanted to get to the statue of #MercyOtisWarren to see how they did her lace for a long time. With a friend the other day, we got to the Courthouse. But it's under construction and fenced off--so I had to grab a shot over the fence and couldn' I have been chasing the #PlimothJacket for years and yesterday I caught it! When Jill Hawkins--my first #lace instructor--told me about this project, I was enchanted. Reproduction lace for period garments was exactly my goal in learning to make lace. Because it was going into competition, I couldn't show the results of this until it became public. Yesterday I found out it won "Best use of color" at the Big E Agricultural fair in Massachusetts. Woot! Come by the exhibit hall if you are Watching the local news, I just realized that the show #WidowsBay was filmed in #RockportMA. Usually I do #IpswichLace, but I can do Rockport lace! I have a piece of lace inspired by Rockport--I did #Motif1 in lace, with beads as buoys--for our lace How wonderful was this space for learning #BobbinLace! In #IpswichMA! So much light. We were just a few houses down from where Mary Baker taught the children of Ipswich 200 years ago. We are now teaching new lacemakers right here. It was terrific The article about today's #IpswichLace makers is now shareable with a link. You can download the PDF of the whole issue, but this link to the article directly is great to have too. https://thelocalnews.news/2026/09/05/preserving-and-sharing-ipswichs Ildiko and I are delighted that Daniella from @ipswichlocalnews was interested in our #BobbinLace story about sharing the skills with the community! We sat by the Ipswich River, like other lacemakers of the past no doubt, and showed how lace is made

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