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Honiton Lace: One of England’s Loveliest Laces
Explore the history of this British bobbin lace with a pattern to try yourself, plus a bonus deep dive into a Bucks Point lace edging.
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Explore the history of this British bobbin lace with a pattern to try yourself, plus a bonus deep dive into a Bucks Point lace edging.
Season 14, Episode 5: Best known for his work with peanuts, renowned agricultural scientist George Washington Carver had a lifelong passion for needlework. Park Ranger Curtis Gregory shares stories about Carver’s interests in handwork and natural dyeing.
Honoring the women who built the historic lace industry in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and connecting today’s makers with this nearly lost craft.
Season 13, Episode 9: Ethereal, durable, ornamental, powerful—what does lace mean to you? Through academic study and the work of her hands, Elena Kanagy-Loux teaches that lace is all of these things and more.
Learn about this varied lacemaking technique that developed all over the world and how you can try it, too!
Where knitting has knit and purl stitches, bobbin lace has crosses and twists; where knitting has needles, bobbin lace has bobbins.
Belgium was known to have the greatest lacemaking centers in all of Northern Europe.
It took Shirley K. Egan eight years (1996–2004) to complete a bobbin-lace veil for her daughter’s wedding.
The doily has been at the center of home décor fashion for more than a century.
Karen H. Thompson demonstrates bobbin lace stitches in this quick video!
Discover the colorful origins of the venerable Maison Sajou--a French design and needlework workshop, with a legacy that continues to intrigue stitchers today.
Once thought of as only something a grandmother could love, doilies are experiencing a renaissance.
Bobbin lace can be used on a small scale—think a lacy edging for a collar—or articles of a much larger scale, or anything in between. Read about the magnificent bobbin-lace coverlet that once belonged to world-famous contralto Marian Anderson.