05/06/2026
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Run of the Mill, a show opening May 2 in the West Gallery of the Lace Mill, celebrates the Lace Mill from its promising beginning as the US Lace Curtain Mill in 1903, through its acquisition by the ill-fated Scranton Lace Curtain Company, to its IBM years and its decades of derelict abandonment to its renaissance as RUPCO’s award winning place-making design of 2015.
We will explore the dedicated and ingenious technology of the Nottingham looms—machines imported from England along with their skilled operators. But just as lace filters light and casts patterns of shadow, the airy fantasies of Gilded Age luxuries for the masses were spun out of share-cropped cotton, often by the hands of children, and forged by the hell of anthracite coal mining.
Run of the Mill also showcases lace as our human heritage, and journeys from nature’s inspiration for lace to the many traditional expressions of handmade lace to machine-made lace. We will culminate the exhibit by honoring contemporary lacemakers and the reemergence of an unsung handicraft as premiere textile art.
The exhibit will run from May 2nd through May 30th with a presentation and talk by curator Alisza Phillips on May 28th at 7pm.
This exhibit is curated by Alisza Phillips with Stephen Blauweiss.
Artwork by Lace Mill artists, curated by James Martin, will be on display in the East Gallery.
