Lacemaking Crafts

Lacemaking

Making laces by hand is an ancient and treasured art form. Sites listed here are involved in the study, preservation and the making of lace of all types. Some types of handmade laces include bobbin laces, needle laces, tape laces and tatted lace.

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• - This news group provides a forum to discuss needlelace techniques.
  
• - A gallery of challenges is presented by Philadelphia lacemakers.
  
• - Janya Sugunnasil, in Thailand, designs and teaches bobbin laces.
  
• - With 3 bobbin lace edgings and 6 small circulars, this is a nice little gallery.
  
• - Hiltraut tells why she loves bobbin lacemaking and shares fifteen photos of her work.
  
• - Dora's sense of humor shows in her Margareten-Spitze laces.
  
• - Kieth Enevoldsen shows how to make a bobbin winder from legos.
  
• - This site contains photos of bobbin displays, and 16th - 20th century laces.
  
• - This site contains photos of laces made in Brazil.
  
• - Scroll down and click 'patterns' to find Jana's drawings. Click 'photographs' for a gallery of contempory and traditional pieces.
  
• - This museum and shop in Venice shares a series of photos that chronical a piece of needlelace from design to finished masterpiece.
  
• - Weronika describes her lace pieces and designs, and keeps a lacemaking journal.
  
• - Lynda shares pictures of her bobbin laces, grouped by type.
  
• - The Embroiderers Guild of America offers a correspondence course in advanced Kalosca Lace.
  
• - Homepage of lacemakers in Oxford UK includes calendar of events.
  
• - One of the groups that make up the North Carolina Regional Lacers, the site contains their newsletter and information about lace deomonstrations and other activities.
  
• - Doylies, mats, butterflies and a doll dress have all been made by this creative lacemaker.
  
• - Author Gloria Penning shares 18 knitted lace works, plus information about her books.
  
• - Italian site describes works in buckspoint, torchon and milanese, and holds a gallery of over forty photos.
  
• - Freelance editor for Lace (the Lace Guild magazine), Deb's site contains knitted, bobbin and needle laces, plus plotted grids for designing your own lace patterns.
  
• - Webrings make it easy to randomly surf thru lacemaking sites.
  
• - Eitel shares 3 examples of lace projects.
  
• - 17th-century Portuguese needlelace border illustrates the biblical story of Judith.
  
• - Contains a short introduction to princess, bobbin and needle laces.
  
• - Professor Janez Bogataj shares an essay on this Slovenian lace.
  
• - The Lace Manufactures Museum records France's lacemaking history.
  
• - Carolina presents her original milanese works, patterns and a history of lace in Catalunya.
  
• - A unique lace ruff, and a pillow on stand, plus tips on cleaning nonwashable lace.
  
• - Leisa ReFalo shares six galleries of handmade laces, plus stumpwork and jewelry.
  
• - Settled in The Round House in Cooma, Australia, Noelene (Tatter's Poet Laureate) shares her new lace creations.
  
• - Dr. Maginnis documents laces used on apparel from the 16th -19th century.
  
• - Based in Honiton, Devon UK, the museum features the laces famous to this region.
  
• - This online bobbin lace school has twelve lessons covering over forty topics. Each topic is well illustrated; some are even animated. The ten beginning patterns are organized into four categories; all are illustrated.
  
• - Glenys Pople has written a clear and well illustrated definition of bobbin lace.
  
• - Results of the 2003 Conference in Rimini, Italy are located here. Site includes plans to further study the technical, artistic and historic aspects of lace in 2005 .
  
• - Site shows a variety of Honiton pieces and discusses Slovak, Milanese and Point Ground.
  
• - Bjarne Drew shares photos of the costumes he's created and his lace projects.
  
• - The history and patterns of lace on Cyprus can be found here, plus a photo index of local lacemakers.
  
• - This Arduin Lace Collection was handmade by Mary O'Neill in Ireland.
  
• - Directory of links for personal pages, shops, and chat.
  
• - This comprehensive well maintained list, sorted by country, lists lace events all over the world.
  
• - This lacemaker combines different lace forms. Bobbin lace, needle lace and tatting, can all be found in one piece.
  
• - This unusual collection of over 400 laces was exhibited in England and the USA.
  
• - This museum in Devon, England, is dedicated to local history and Honiton lace.
  
• - Mary offers a small gallery that includes profiles of a man and a woman done in needle lace.
  
• - Discussing the history of bucks, beds and northant bobbin laces, this site also covers equipment and local laces today.
  
• - An amazing bobbin lace cake buffet and miniature lace shop shown here.
  
• - Professor Griswold has been collecting documents regarding textile arts such as lacemaking, and placing them in this online archival library.
  
• - An IOLI charter group, meets in San Antonio, Texas. Includes photos of annual demonstrations at the Folklife Festival.
  
• - A nice introduction to the various forms of needlelaces, this site also illustrates the stitches.
  
• - Founded in 1983, this group has 3800 members. It promotes lacemaking thru congresses, competitions, classes and exhibits.
  
• - Jan, from Crete, creates miniature lace and lacemaking supplies - including a complete lace shop.
  
• - Diane Claeys regularly adds illustrated articles on the history of a lace piece (with over a dozen articles currently on site). Vintage photos and paintings of lacemakers share a gallery with antique lace tools.
  
• - Photo and historical background of victorian era lacemaker.
  
• - Chrisine has posted photos of her honiton projects.
  
• - Lara offers history and how-to's for period costumes plus patterns.
  
• - The official site of LOKK, the Dutch Lace Organization, contains photos of modern and classical laces created by its members. Click kantbrief to reach the gallery.
  
• - This article describes the lace industry and school in this English village.
  
• - Tape Laces are the theme of this Festival in Tonder in 2004.
  
• - Scroll to the bottom of the page to find lace histories from 1500-1900, plus a gallery of laceworks.
  
• - A gallery of home accessories in battenburg lace is found here.
  
• - Three lace artists encourage bobbin, and needle, lacemakers to give designing a try by offering case studies, tutorials, patterns and galleries.
  
• - Lace Artist: Lenka Suchanek uses wire as a medium to create bobbin lace jewelry and sculptures. She also shares photos of her studio in British Columbia, Canada.
  
• - Jaroslava Jedlinska and Dana Mihulkova, both from Czechoslovakia, share examples of their bobbin laces.
  
• - Irish Laces are this group's specialty. Carrickmacross, Irish crochet, and Limerick laces can all be found in their gallery.
  
• - Two friends give classes and provide kits for Romanian Point Lace. Gallery included.
  
• - There are sixteen online pages in this comprehensive beginning lesson taught by Jennifer McNitt.
  
• - Kate posts photos of her bobbinlaces: bonnet, booties, collars, doilies and tablecoths.
  
• - Arlene has compiled a booklist, in 30 categories, for lace enthusiasts.
  
• - Lorelei documents methods of identification and describes bobbin lace in the 17th through the current century.
  
• - Frances defines knotwork and offers assorted bobbins.
  
• - These simplified instructions for making battenburg lace include photos.
  
• - Mr. Kriel describes himself as a passionate lacemaker. Although he's only been making lace since 1996, he's already completed projects in torchon, bedfordshire, brugges, duchesse and russian tape lace.
  
• - Rita Leydon writes an essay on bobbin lacemaking in Sweden.
  
• - Homepage of this historic Australian Society of Lacemakers.
  
• - New filet lace is created from 16th century patterns.
  
• - Samples of Honiton, Slovak, Point Groound and Milanese laces are found in this gallery.
  
• - Avital designed a printable pricking for a bobbin lace tablecloth and a Star of David tatting pattern. Her gallery contains examples of 3 different lace forms.
  
• - Rosanna has compiled articles, photos, reports and diagrams of lacemaking in France, including an unusual collection of lacemakers in miniature.
  
• - A Basic Guide To Lacis written by Tomi McNaughton.
  
• - The Circle, formed in 1988, publishes a quarterly magazine, promotes classes, demonstrations and lace days, and maintains a library. They match lacemakers with mentoring peers, and provide a help line.
  
• - This family based business provides bobbin lace supplies plus lace inspired designs in other genres.
  
• - BJ describes different forms of handmade laces, including bobbin, tattting, needle and chemical.
  
• - A lace nativity scene (#7) and Snow White (#10) are among the works created by this busy Belgian Lace Group.
  
• - Shares the history and current activities of the Aragon Lacemakers.
  
• - Rita creates doilies and edgings, sharing patterns and 'how to' information.
  
• - Gloria's laceworks include multiple contest entries. She specializes in modern lace jewelry.
  
• - This lace magazine is printed in French and English.
  
• - Lacemakers demonstrate craft at Jerusalem Church.
  
• - Bobbin Lace Artist shares nine of her original modern works.
  
• - Sharing the site with sister Terry, Brenda shows how to make paper bobbins, and shares a Beds-Maltese pattern.
  
• - Click a photo, then follow the arrows to explore the works of Lace-Artist Eva Baumgartner.
  
• - Museum shares several photos of lace dating from 1850 to 1900.
  
• - Stephanie Peter's provides free bobbin lace software, stitching charts and tatting patterns, including complete illustrated instructions for cluny leaves.
  
• - A lacemaker has evaluated design software and created a table stand for a vertical cookie pillow.
  
• - Photos, and descriptions, of bobbin lace pieces made by Lara's mom.
  
• - Three pictures of lace, one of tools, and a link to an article in Lace magazine.
  
• - Lace Artist Sieglinde Grigat's 'Occhi' gallery holds over 40 pieces of tatted artworks. Most pieces employ advanced techniques. She also works in bobbin lace, crochet and hairpin laces, knotted and knitted laces.
  
• - Rosemary's hobby is making bobbin lace by the pond.
  
• - Jean Goldberg translates humor into art through needlelace. This extraordinary gallery contains 20 masterpieces in lace depicting life in the twenty first century.
  
• - Home page of the Spanish lace magazine. Patterns, competitions and calendar, plus 'Letter to the Reader' from previous issues.
  
• - Site describes history of, and techniques used to make, alencon lace.
  
• - A group of over 300 bobbin lacers chat about projects, supplies and patterns.
  
• - Click the buttons labelled 'moderne' to view 14 years of the work of Lace Artist, Beate Agten.
  
• - Christiane Eichler's site includes a comprehensive pattern surfer,a German & English lace dictionary, a gallery and tips.
  
• - Lacemakers share a pattern page, photos of their exhibits, Miss Channer's mat, plus information about their 4 year lace course.
  
• - Elizabeth Kurella identifies, repairs and appraises fine laces.
  
• - Alissa shares her work in buck's point, flemish, honiton and torchon.
  
• - Jean Bullock illustrates and defines 6 types of handmade lace.
  
• - Sheila Sharpe demonstrates lacemaking in period costume.
  
• - Based in Amsterdam, this certified teacher/bobbin lacer shares her lace heritage with students.
  
• - A gallery of lace from 1991 to present contains over two dozen works.
  
• - Sherry, a tatter and bobbin lacer, designs unique pieces. She also decorates bobbins using paints and decoupage.
  
• - The site of this California museum shows current displays, workshops and classes. Also calendar of events, newsletter and patterns.
  
• - This database has entries in the following categories: laces, census and biographies of lacemakers, designers, bibliographies, glossaries, historical documents, museums, news and online training.
  
• - Site contains animated video of bobbin pairs in action.
  
• - The modern works of this lace artist are displayed here.
  
  

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