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
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
