Dessiner la Dentelle: Esquisses & Esquisseurs à Calais
Dates: November 10, 2011 to March 11, 2012
Location: Cité International de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais
135, Quai du Commerce, 62100 Calais, France
Web site: http://www.cite-dentelle.fr/spip.php?article379
Email: cite-dentelle@mairie-calais.fr
Telephone: +33 (0)3 21 00 42 30
Lace Director: Sophie Henwood, sophie.henwood@mairie-calais.fr
Hours: April 1 to Oct 31, daily from 10 AM to 6 PM except Thursdays
November 2 to March 31, daily from 10 AM to 5 PM except Thursdays
Closed December 25th and January 1st.
Admission fee: Permanent exhibition- 5 euros, Temporary exhibition- 5 euros,
1-day pass, 8 euros. 50% off for under 18, students, over 65, disabled, and those in search of employment.
Free under 5 years old.  First Sunday in March, June, Sept, Oct free for individuals.

The current exhibition assembles the work of lace designers, more than one hundred sketches are on display. This includes a large number of loans from the artists, their descendants, and employers. The creation of machine lace from the initial sketch to the final product is illustrated, starting almost two hundred years ago, to today’s digital techniques.