{Museum Lace Factory - Antique Lace Toer or Poffer}

On September 13, my dear friend Ellie and I did visit the Museum de Kantfabriek 'Lace Factory' in my birth place, Horst in The Netherlands. Quite an interesting guided tour we got, with some tea afterwards. Photos were also made with us wearing an antique lace Toer or Poffer. These were head covers that I still do remember as a child, worn by the eldest women in town. Click here for some info and scroll a bit down. For mourning they did wear  a black lace toer. When clicked on the magnifier glass, you get to see also the info/beschrijving, to the right of each photo; just click again on it! More old photos from my hometown Horst and surrounding towns, you see here.

When as a child, I went to Church it made me quite nauseating when sitting behind such an enormous lace Toer, that hung from the back down quite a length. In order to preserve those pieces of lace art, they kept them in the moth-balls. I have come to hate the odor of moth balls ever since I was a little girl. Okay, here comes a picture (very poor quality though) with me wearing one. We had to step with our foot on a pedal for initiating this photo shoot...

That's me with an antique lace toer and Ellie is standing to the right...

First we had to put a black 'muts' cap underneath the lace toer. All that without a mirror...

Ellie looks rather good in it, the photo is for some reason sharper.

Another visitor is wearing a toer here and Ellie stands to the right...

This is how those photos were listed on their website for downloading...

Indeed this was quite an interesting guided tour and one should realize that up till the end 2006 here was machine made lace being produced!

Tomorrow I will show you photos from my Great-Grandmothers, wearing such a lace toer... Stay tuned!

Museum de Kantfabriek Horst aan de Maas | video Youtube