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Gr8 Sites You Might Find Useful:
  • LaceFairy's Lacemaking Central - Part museum, part master's degree, Lori's site holds more than 1000 pages of lacemaking information. Information on lacemaking and lacemakers, identification and preservation, collecting and collections. Instructions, patterns, postcards and graphics, historical photos and galleries can be found here.
  • Alamo Bobbin Lacers - An IOLI charter group, meets in San Antonio, Texas. Includes photos of annual demonstrations at the Folklife Festival.
  • Alissa's Lace - Alissa shares her work in Buck's Point, Flemish, Honiton and Torchon.
  • Avital's Fibers - 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.
  • Batten Lace - These simplified instructions for making battenburg lace include photos.
  • Beautiful and Practical Netting - Rita creates doilies and edgings, sharing patterns and 'how to' information.
  • BJ's Laces - BJ describes different forms of handmade laces, including bobbin, tattting, needle and chemical.
  • Bobbin Lace European Network - This database has entries in the following categories: laces, census and biographies of lacemakers, designers, bibliographies, glossaries, historical documents, museums, news and online training.
  • Bobbin Lacers in CZ - Jaroslava Jedlinska and Dana Mihulkova, both from Czechoslovakia, share examples of their bobbin laces.
  • Bobbinburg - Directory of links for personal pages, shops, and chat.
  • Bobbinlace Chat Group - A group of over 300 bobbin lacers chat about projects, supplies and patterns.
  • Branscombe Parish - This article describes the lace industry and school in this English village.
  • Brenda Paternoster - Brenda includes instructions for choosing threads, a free pattern and a gallery.
  • Brenda's Lace - Brenda and Terry Paternoster offer information about lacemaking, lace threads and a free bobbin lace pattern.
  • Canadian Lacemaker Gazette - This lace magazine is printed in French and English.
  • Carolina's Lace Site - Carolina presents her original milanese works, patterns and a history of lace in Catalunya.
  • CD 2000 GALLERY - This unusual collection of over 400 laces was exhibited in England and the USA.
  • Celtic Dream Weaver - Sherry, a tatter and bobbin lacer, designs unique pieces. She also decorates bobbins using paints and decoupage.
  • Christine England - Chrisine has posted photos of her honiton projects.
  • Claeys Antique - 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.
Last update: 19:35 PT, Thursday, November 13, 2008