Library of Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuta e del Costume,
Palazzo Mocenigo,Venice
very good textile library staffed by pleasant, cheerful women
 

Venice Lace Group
Setti Mari (Seven Seas): write to Signora Annabella
Doni, at the Albergo Doni, Calle del Vin, 30122 Venezia.  She speaks English,
runs a small hotel ("very clean", she said), and is the organizer and teacher
for the group.  She is interested in making contact with lacemakers anywhere.
They meet on Thursday afternoons and perhaps more near the S. Apostoli Campo.

 

Point de Venise

Making needle lace (point de venice)

 

 

Pellestrina -40 km to Venice
http://www.provincia.venezia.it/gcesare/e_ep/e_ep1/tombolo.htm

below is my translation of the above webpage

In the past Venice worked bobbin lace (tombolo) but it was at it height of  the 18th century in Pellestrina.
For the women the job to bobbin lace was one modest source of gain and also an appreciate pastime. On beautiful sunny days they set temselves up as usual on the house door to work the lace on the tombolo, and the laces that exited from their industrious hands went to decorate the linen of the lady, of the gentleman and also of the people.  In 1874  to Pellestrina came the first " lace School to fuselli " where they educateded aproximately a hundred girls. The school had remarkable development and very quickly nearly all the women women worked pillow lace.

Later on,  two world wars and other businesses that attracted from more profitable activities led to it's decilne. In Pellestrina, from some years in an ancient building, the A.C.S. " Murazzo " held onto local tradition by organizing a school for lacemaking.

 Still today, while taking a walk along the island in the summer you can see seated in the open and the shadow of the houses, busy lacemakers still weaving lacei with rapid hand movements, giving life to the ancient tradition of the island.

Quote from http://www.venetian-lace.com/history.html

"It was about this time that production was moved to the islands of the Venetian lagoon: needle lace to Burano, bobbin to Pellestrina. It is here in the convents, in the homes and in the schools that the natural development of this work will flourish. "