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The Lace Museum - http://www.thelacemuseum.org/
The site of this California museum shows current displays, workshops and classes. Also calendar of events, newsletter and patterns. |
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Digital Archive of Documents - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/
Professor Griswold has been collecting documents regarding textile arts such as lacemaking, and placing them in this online archival library. |
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LaceFairy's Lacemaking Central - http://lace.lacefairy.com/
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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Cowper & Newton Museum: Lace making home page - http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/lace/index.html
Discussing the history of bucks, beds and northant bobbin laces, this site also covers equipment and local laces today. |
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Alissa's Lace - http://www.jti.net/alissa/index.htm
Alissa shares her work in Buck's Point, Flemish, Honiton and Torchon. |
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Carolina's Lace Site - http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/
Carolina presents her original milanese works, patterns and a history of lace in Catalunya. |
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Bobbin Lace European Network - http://www.blen.net/m_c.htm
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in the following categories: laces, census and biographies of lacemakers, designers, bibliographies, glossaries, historical documents, museums, news and online training.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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La Encajera - The Lacemaker - http://www.realce.es/la_encajera/encaing.htm
Home page of the Spanish lace magazine. Patterns, competitions and calendar, plus 'Letter to the Reader' from previous issues. |
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The Structures of Antique Lace - http://www.marlamallett.com/lace.htm
Marla Mallett shares bobbin lace, needlepoint lace, and other handmade laces from her personal collection. |
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La Dentelles - http://www.dentellieres.com/lace.htm
Rosanna has compiled articles, photos, reports and diagrams of lacemaking in France, including an unusual collection of lacemakers in miniature. |
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Lace Magazine - http://www.lacemagazine.com/
Includes a short introduction to princess, bobbin and needle laces. |
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Landelijke Organisatie Kant Kunst - http://www.lokk.nl/
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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CD 2000 GALLERY - http://freespace.virgin.net/deborah.robinson/cd2000.htm
This unusual collection of over 400 laces was exhibited in England and the USA. |
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"Mrs Dot" - http://freespace.virgin.net/deborah.robinson/index.htm
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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Sheelin Irish Lace Museum - http://www.irishlacemuseum.com/
Museum shares several photos of lace dating from 1850 to 1900. |
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Dalla Lidia Merletti d'Arte - http://www.buranolace.it
This museum and shop in Venice shares a series of photos that chronicle a piece of needle lace from design to finished masterpiece. |
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Bobbin Lacers in CZ - http://www.lace.cz/
Jaroslava Jedlinska and Dana Mihulkova, both from Czechoslovakia, share examples of their bobbin laces. |
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Christine England - http://members.tripod.com/~lacemaker/index.htm
Chrisine has posted photos of her honiton projects. |
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Csetneki Hungarian Lace - http://www.csetnekicsipke.hu/
One hundred years of Hungarian lace. Includes history, lacemaking method, and image gallery with close up details. |
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Claeys Antique - http://www.claeysantique.com/
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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Needlelace - http://www.geocities.com/monstonitrus/a_and_s/needlelace/needlelace.html
A nice introduction to the various forms of needlelaces, this site also illustrates the stitches. |
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Slovakian Bobbin Lace - http://www.ds.psg.sk/prezenta/frajkor/
Scroll down and click 'patterns' to find Jana's drawings. Click 'photographs' for a gallery of contempory and traditional pieces. |
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Guild of Irish Lace Makers - http://www.irishlace.org/
Irish Laces are this group's specialty. Carrickmacross, Irish crochet, and Limerick laces can all be found in their gallery. |
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Lace Exhibitions - http://digilander.libero.it/gloriavalli/index2.htm
This comprehensive well maintained list, sorted by country, lists lace events all over the world. |
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The Lacemakers Circle - http://www.oz-arnold.net/lmc/
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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Knotwork - http://www.lacebobbins.com/
Frances defines knotwork and offers assorted bobbins. |
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Lacemaking - http://www.lacemaking.it/
Italian site describes works in buckspoint, torchon and milanese, and holds a gallery of over forty photos. |
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Kate's Lace - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/3970/index.htm
Kate posts photos of her bobbinlaces: bonnet, booties, collars, doilies and tablecoths. |
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Bobbinlace Chat Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bobbinlace/
A group of over 300 bobbin lacers chat about projects, supplies and patterns. |
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Knypplad Spets , the Crowning Touch - http://www.ritaleydon.com/Zwriting/1996/lace.html
Rita Leydon writes an essay on bobbin lacemaking in Sweden. |
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Golden Bobbin Lacers - http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/goldenbobbins/
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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Lacemaking Webring - http://www.unicorn-meadow.co.uk/lacering/
Webrings make it easy to randomly surf thru lacemaking sites. |
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Miniature Bobbin Lace - http://www.homestead.com/janincrete/Lacemaking.html
Jan, from Crete, creates miniature lace and lacemaking supplies - including a complete lace shop. |
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Margit's Romanian Point Lace - http://pointlace.planet.ro
Ms.Margit, of Transylvania, shares her handmade pieces of romanian point lace. |
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Laces from Slovakia. - http://slovart.danderekgallery.net/
Dan Derek, in Czechoslovakia, shares a gallery of handmade laces. |
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Irish Carrickmacross Lace - - http://www.irishcarrickmacrosslace.com/
This Arduin Lace Collection was handmade by Mary O'Neill in Ireland. |
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Knipling Lace Festival - http://www.kniplings-festival.dk/engelsk/
Tape Laces are the theme of this Festival in Tonder in 2004. |
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Lacemaking in Czek - http://www.palickovani.cz/en/
Animated video of bobbin pairs in action. |
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Sieglindes Twinetime - http://www.fadenzeit.de/
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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BJ's Laces - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9801/lace.html
BJ describes different forms of handmade laces, including bobbin, tattting, needle and chemical. |
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Manie Kriel from Heidelberg, Gauteng, South Africa - http://www.geocities.com/malelacer/
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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Canadian Lacemaker Gazette - http://www.lacegazette.com/
This lace magazine is printed in French and English. |
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Rosemary Richards-Steck - http://www.geocities.com/vinasage/Lace.html
Rosemary's hobby is making bobbin lace by the pond. |
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Batten Lace - http://www.e-honcho.jorne.ed.jp/en/baten/
These simplified instructions for making battenburg lace include photos. |
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Doina and Tiana - http://members.tripod.com/victorianart/
Two friends give classes and provide kits for Romanian Point Lace. Gallery included. |
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Steph's String Related Stuff - http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm
Stephanie Peter's provides free bobbin lace software, stitching charts and tatting patterns, including complete illustrated instructions for cluny leaves. |
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Lace Design - http://www.lace.nildram.co.uk/
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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Liberty Lacers - http://www.cezwright.com/liblace/index.htm
A gallery of challenges is presented by Philadelphia lacemakers. |
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Rustyx Lace - http://www.geocities.com/justme42uk/
This lacemaker combines different lace forms. Bobbin lace, needle lace and tatting, can all be found in one piece. |
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Jana Onuskova - http://art.box.sk/jo/
Bobbin Lace Artist shares nine of her original modern works. |