My Lace arrived on Friday, and the IOLI magazine a couple of weeks or more ago.
It was good to sit down and read it while I was trying to recover from
pneumonia which has stopped me from going to England to the Lace Guild AGM
which I’ll miss for the first time in about 20 years.
I’m sure that
My IOLI Bulletin has just arrived, so I will have some good reading later on!!
I have not had time to open it yet, though!
Now to watch out for the UK Lace magazine, and Oz Lace should be out and about
soon, too!
Regards from Liz in chilly but dry Melbourne, Oz. We would Love some rain, -
so if
Dear Devon,
Yes, the Japanese definitely have a love of all things lace! I recall going
to an exhibition of antique lace in Shibuya, Tokyo back in 2010 or 2011 I
believe? Unfortunately I just stumbled upon it so I have no idea where this
was. This was around when I started looking for a lace
Thanks to a reply sent only to me, I have had my attention drawn to the quote
in the Dover edition of Palliser (1914) on p. 417 âThe versatile Japanese
have copied the Honiton method of makin gbobbin lace. The Government have
encouraged a school at Yokohama for pillow lace making, under the
About 15 years ago we had a Japanese girl called Setsuko Wanaka join our lace
classes she was over here with her husband who was working at Sanyo Television
in Lowestoft. She was brilliant I have never seen anyone learn lace so fast
she quickly went onto learn more types of lace before she and
As I am writing the catalog of Lace, not Lace, a lot of questions come to mind
and I realize how little I know.
I am under the impression that there was a period of time, possibly still
continuing, where Japanese women became interested in bobbin lacemaking, and
were taking lace tours of Belgium
Hi Elizabeth,
I don't see an answer to your question, so I'll jump in with an alternative
suggestion. Request color cards from mail-order sources, such as from this
vendor:
https://www.craftsy.com/quilting/ideas/craftsy-thread.
Then you could see the real colors and feel the thread. This thread
