Passion for prairie pioneer crafts revives the lowly doily

Marta Gold, Edmonton Journal, profiled Edmonton fibre artist Letisha McFall.

"Pity the poor doily: first decades spent soaking up hair grease and palm sweat from the backs and arms of chesterfields or buffering ashtrays and knick-knacks from scratching polished woods. Then mothballed in closets or worse, dumped at thrift shops by a modern generation embracing furniture made of leather and veneer.

As a child of the 1950s, Letisha McFall rejected the doilies of her mother and grandmother. Like her peers, she saw them as the epitome of old-fashioned, outmoded ideas of women’s work, the ultimate in fussy, useless frippery."

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Originally published January 24, 2013