Exhibitions in and around Paris

    Exhibitions   and Events in Paris in 2012

    Decorative Arts Fashion and Textiles Museum 

    http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/english-439/mode-et-textile-740/

    In Normandy

    World Lace Congress  in Caen Normandy July 6 - 8 2012

    http://www.oidfacaen.com//accueil.html 

    on the outskirts   Jouy Museum                 

    http://www.museedelatoiledejouy.fr/en/index.php

    an afternoon outside Paris    Mother of Pearl Buttons Museum 

    http://www.musee-nacre.com/en  

    a day in Normandy     visit the Bohin factory

    http://www.bohin.fr/en/pageLibre00010a9c.html#

   further afield     

   http://www.musee-impression.com/gb/default.html   in Alsace

  http://www.cncs.fr/  National Museum of Costume

  much further afield

  http://musee-lozere.com/   Woollen mill museum in Lozère

   If you sew look at this short film about a gown for Christian Dior 

 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8c56v_christian-dior-1939-haute-couture-r_creation