Dear Clare,
My answer to you is now my answer to everyone looking for bobbin lace
instruction. The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA holds virtual beginner
classes. You take them in your home!
https://thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html Beginning classes will be given
in Dec., Jan and February.
The
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Subject: [lace] Lace teachers in/near Idyllwild CA or Long Beach CA
Hi all,
A friend of mine in CA is looking to try bobbin lace. Can anybody point me
at a possible teacher in the Idyllwild area or the Long Beach area?
I am looking
Hi all,
A friend of mine in CA is looking to try bobbin lace. Can anybody point me
at a possible teacher in the Idyllwild area or the Long Beach area?
I am looking at options at the moment, name and a contact email would be
great, then I can pass that on to my friend.
Many thanks,
Clare
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Wow Anna, now that is interesting history, some of which was new information
for me.
As Archivist for the NSW Lace Guild, I will capture it for our records. We
must get together some time to fill out more detail.
Annette in sunny Wollongong where the smoke has cleared.
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A couple of points have occurred to me while reading this subject. Firstly,
not every teacher will click with every student. Some students will learn
better from one teacher than from another.
The second point is that some teachers are not so good at teaching the
techniques of lace-making, but
To follow the discussion I had 2 brilliant bobbin lace teachers.
I started lace when I was 26 years old and a very new Mum. Jenny Fisher
was my first teacher, quite demanding and exacting but I learnt the
basics when I couldn't get to regular classes, she had private classes
for me (and my
I didn't take a class until I'd been making lace, on and off, for 24 years.
My second class was Honiton, a weekend. That was almost 10 years ago. I
still remember the teacher looking at my work and saying, somewhat musingly,
You make nice lace. Those sorts of nice comments can make all the
Hi All
Anybody know of a lace teacher in the Wrexham area of Wales? I have a
friend who used to make lace and whose teacher stopped teaching...
Sue in East Yorkshire
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Liz said Yes, I know teachers who keep their students going on and on for
ages - years
sometimes, and I am sure it is just for the money from classes.
But on the other hand.
I have people that I have been teaching in private classes for over twenty
years. They started perhaps with
I don't think a lacemaker ever gets too proficient for classes - as Jacquie
says there are always new laces to learn, or more challenging patterns to try.
If a class loses it's more experienced pupils from boredom, that probably says
as much about the teacher/class structure as losing beginners
In message 200904061248.05805.b...@capuchin.co.uk, Beth Marshall
b...@capuchin.co.uk writes
And a sprinkling of more experienced lacemakers in the class can
sometimes help the newbies with minor problems/questions so they don't spend
too much precious class time waiting for the teacher (who,
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Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace teachers
Thanks to all who've shared their experiences of lace teaching and/or lace
teachers.
Which was just as well, because family commitments and lack of transport
meant
My
I started teaching lace in the early 1970s, I knew little and had to work
had to keep ahead of my students.
Like Alex, I too started teaching in the early 1970's with very little
knowledge and protested to my teacher Nenia Lovesey that I had insufficient
knowledge. She insisted that I would
Thanks to all who've shared their experiences of lace teaching and/or lace
teachers.
I've had two very different lace teachers for regular classes:
I was lucky enough to start with Marie Kell in Leeds back in the early 80's.
Marie used a progression of patterns, each one introducing a new
and she demonstrates things
so fast most of us can't see how they were done... some students attempt
patterns way beyond their skills and get discouraged, others never attempt
anything beyond the simplest torchon - and some of those never learn to
start,
finish or turn a simple corner
I like to hear of students who have had a good experience with teachers. I
started teaching lace in the early 1970s, I knew little and had to work had to
keep ahead of my students. Being a teacher by profession I started by
arranging patterns, I did not have many - they were like gold dust then -
. I'm also
pretty good at finding someone's lost worker too!! (VBG)
Ruth
thelacema...@optusnet.com.au
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Subject: [lace] Lace
the thought of their students getting better than them.
This is just the reason some teachers Never tell you all you should learn!
Some people are afraid of anyone knowing as much as they do.
I feel sorry for them - they miss out on a lot! (and I get a bit angry about
it!)
I feel that if a
Morning All
Just to put in my 2 pennorth I started to teach myself around 3
years ago, from a book. the first piece of lace I produced was
abysmal! But I was proud of it! I then joined a couple of Lace
Groups and found that one of them had a class. I started going, my
The conventional wisdom about leaves and tallies is that you need to
make 1,000 of them before you can do them consistently and without fear
and trembling. That seems like an awful lot, but if you pick a project
(such as a handkerchief edging) that has a good amount of
leaves/tallies, by the
Clay, I couldn't agree with you more!!I had a lady from another state in
Australia ask me to teach her Bucks - and she was very surprised when I readily
agreed.
Her teacher in the other state had refused to teach her Bucks because you're
trying to run before you can walk. So I asked how
I did one small 9 pin edge with my Grandmother when I was about 19,in England,
then did not make any lace till I was about 40/41and living here in Oz..
I managed to find a course of 8 lessons somewhere nearby, and joined the group
of 5 or 6 with the teacher.
However, she went around the table
Hello to One and All! 4 years on torchon! I teach an 8 week course on torchon!
Then we get together again and I show them other types of bobbin lace. IF they
feel ready to go onto something new. Or if they feel they need some extra
classes, or another variety of bobbin lace, then we will do
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