Very interesting stories in this topic. This is my own version. While in high school in Denmark, I saw my mother making bobbin lace. I think she learned it as a young girl in the 1910s. In the 1960s adult education classes were offered in communities in Denmark, and she finally had a little spare time. In 1974, after I had settled in Indiana in the US, I realized I had not seen anybody make bobbin lace here. So when my parents visited us I asked her to show me. She sent me Sina Kielberg’s book and soon after I found Doris Southard’s book. Working on my own from these books, I made very slow progress, especially because one was cross twist and the other twist cross. Very confusing for a total beginner. In the late 1970s a few friends and our children asked me to teach them, so barely one step ahead of them we made progress. We started the Lafayette Lacers. Guess this fits in with learning in Europe or from European teacher.
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