Hello Sally, I have just spent a day with a Bulgarian lacemaker friend who came to visit me in Spain. She is called Bistra Pisancheva ( http://www.bistrapisancheva.com/index.php?/bobbinlace/) and makes really interesting lace, not at all conventional. She is also very good making Kene, a needle lace with some specific characteristics of Bulgaria. She told me that bobbin lace started in Bulgaria very recently (only one century ago or so) and that there are only about 5 lacemakers in her country. She will be able to answer your questions, I am sure.
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