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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.
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An IOLI charter group, meets in San Antonio, Texas. Includes photos of annual demonstrations at the Folklife Festival.
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Alissa shares her work in buck's point, flemish, honiton and torchon.
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Based in Honiton, Devon UK, the museum features the laces famous to this region.
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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.
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BJ describes different forms of handmade laces, including bobbin, tattting, needle and chemical.
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These simplified instructions for making battenburg lace include photos.
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Rita creates doilies and edgings, sharing patterns and 'how to' information.
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This database has entries in the following categories: laces, census and biographies of lacemakers, designers, bibliographies, glossaries, historical documents, museums, news and online training.
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Jaroslava Jedlinska and Dana Mihulkova, both from Czechoslovakia, share examples of their bobbin laces.
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Directory of links for personal pages, shops, and chat.
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A group of over 300 bobbin lacers chat about projects, supplies and patterns.
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This article describes the lace industry and school in this English village.
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Brenda includes instructions for choosing threads, a free pattern and a gallery.
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Brenda and Terry Paternoster offer information about lacemaking, lace threads and a free bobbin lace pattern.
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This unusual collection of over 400 laces was exhibited in England and the USA.
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This lace magazine is printed in French and English.
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Sherry, a tatter and bobbin lacer, designs unique pieces. She also decorates bobbins using paints and decoupage.
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Chrisine has posted photos of her honiton projects.
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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.
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Discussing the history of bucks, beds and northant bobbin laces, this site also covers equipment and local laces today.
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One hundred years of Hungarian lace. Includes history, lacemaking method, and image gallery with close up details.
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This museum and shop in Venice shares a series of photos that chronical a piece of needlelace from design to finished masterpiece.
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A gallery of home accessories in battenburg lace is found here.
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Professor Griswold has been collecting documents regarding textile arts such as lacemaking, and placing them in this online archival library.
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Two friends give classes and provide kits for Romanian Point Lace. Gallery included.
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Dora's sense of humor shows in her Margareten-Spitze laces.
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Christiane Eichler's site includes a pattern surfer, a German and English lace dictionary, a gallery and tips.
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Eitel shares 3 examples of lace projects.
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Photo and historical background of victorian era lacemaker.
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Patrones, enlaces e historia del encaje.
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A lacemaker has evaluated design software and created a table stand for a vertical cookie pillow.
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The modern works of this lace artist are displayed here.
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Gloria's laceworks include multiple contest entries. She specializes in modern lace jewelry.
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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.
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Irish Laces are this group's specialty. Carrickmacross, Irish crochet, and Limerick laces can all be found in their gallery.
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Glenys Pople has written a clear and well illustrated definition of bobbin lace.
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A lace nativity scene (#7) and Snow White (#10) are among the works created by this busy Belgian Lace Group.
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Results of the 2003 Conference in Rimini, Italy. Plans to further study the technical, artistic and historic aspects of lace in 2005.
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This Arduin Lace Collection was handmade by Mary O'Neill in Ireland.
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Homepage of lacemakers in Oxford UK includes calendar of events.
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Bobbin Lace Artist shares nine of her original modern works.
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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.
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Kate posts photos of her bobbinlaces: bonnet, booties, collars, doilies and tablecoths.
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Tape Laces are the theme of this Festival in Tonder in 2004.
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Author Gloria Penning shares 18 knitted lace works, plus information about her books.
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Frances defines knotwork and offers assorted bobbins.
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Rita Leydon writes an essay on bobbin lacemaking in Sweden.
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Eva Baumgartner zeigt Bilder ihrer eigenen Arbeiten sowie von Fremdentwürfen und bietet Anleitungen.
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Rosanna has compiled articles, photos, reports and diagrams of lacemaking in France, including an unusual collection of lacemakers in miniature.
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Home page of the Spanish lace magazine. Patterns, competitions and calendar, plus 'Letter to the Reader' from previous issues.
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Arlene has compiled a booklist, in 30 categories, for lace enthusiasts.
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Lacemakers demonstrate craft at Jerusalem Church.
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Three lace artists encourage bobbin, and needle, lacemakers to give designing a try by offering case studies, tutorials, patterns and galleries.
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This comprehensive well maintained list, sorted by country, lists lace events all over the world.
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An international, periodical magazine for lace makers. Also offers books and patterns. Online subscription and orders.
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Includes a short introduction to princess, bobbin and needle laces.
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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.
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Scroll to the bottom of the page to find lace histories from 1500-1900, plus a gallery of laceworks.
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Homepage of this historic Australian Society of Lacemakers.
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Italian site describes works in buckspoint, torchon and milanese, and holds a gallery of over forty photos.
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Webrings make it easy to randomly surf thru lacemaking sites.
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Animated video of bobbin pairs in action.
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Sheila Sharpe demonstrates lacemaking in period costume.
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Dan Derek, in Czechoslovakia, shares a gallery of handmade laces.
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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.
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The history and patterns of lace on Cyprus can be found here, plus a photo index of local lacemakers.
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Kieth Enevoldsen shows how to make a bobbin winder from legos.
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A gallery of challenges is presented by Philadelphia lacemakers.
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Based in Racine, Wisconsin, this group meets bi-monthly at a local library, and holds an annual workshop.
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Jean Goldberg translates humor into art through needlelace. This extraordinary gallery Includes 20 masterpieces in lace depicting life in the twenty first century.
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This artist shares her collection of oil paintings celebrating bobbin lace.
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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.
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Ms.Margit, of Transylvania, shares her handmade pieces of romanian point lace.
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New filet lace is created from 16th century patterns.
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Mary offers a small gallery that includes profiles of a man and a woman done in needle lace.
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Jan, from Crete, creates miniature lace and lacemaking supplies - including a complete lace shop.
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A nice introduction to the various forms of needlelaces, this site also illustrates the stitches.
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This news group provides a forum to discuss needlelace techniques.
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Settled in The Round House in Cooma, Australia, Noelene (Tatter's Poet Laureate) shares her new lace creations.
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Lacemakers share a pattern page, photos of their exhibits, Miss Channer's mat, plus information about their 4 year lace course.
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Elizabeth Kurella identifies, repairs and appraises fine laces.
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Rosemary's hobby is making bobbin lace by the pond.
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This lacemaker combines different lace forms. Bobbin lace, needle lace and tatting, can all be found in one piece.
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Doylies, mats, butterflies and a doll dress have all been made by this creative lacemaker.
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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.
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Scroll down and click 'patterns' to find Jana's drawings. Click 'photographs' for a gallery of contempory and traditional pieces.
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Stephanie Peter's provides free bobbin lace software, stitching charts and tatting patterns, including complete illustrated instructions for cluny leaves.
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Dr. Maginnis documents laces used on apparel from the 16th -19th century.
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Pictures, calendar and news from the unique teaching lace museum.
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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.
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Houses a number of examples of traditional Irish crochet lace, including an antique wedding gown.
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Marla Mallett shares bobbin lace, needlepoint lace, and other handmade laces from her personal collection.
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Click the buttons labelled 'moderne' to view 14 years of the work of Lace Artist, Beate Agten.
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Photos, and descriptions, of bobbin lace pieces made by Lara's mom.
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The Lace Manufactures Museum records France's lacemaking history.
