teach to different groups, 4 hours per week. I give class on computer lace design and intensive courses of Hinojosa lace if I am asked for.
success and acceptation by lacemakers all over the world.
a challenge which I enjoy whenever possible. Renaissance laces are one of my goals. I have interpreted and reproduced the lace displayed on a peinture of Mr. Thomas Hieppes, dated about 16th. Cent.
totally absorbing relaxation which challenges at the same time.
dealing with all day, losing myself in the calm of lace and sound of bobbins.
knowledge and you are welcome to browse around.
As a romantic testimony of my first steps in bobbin lace I would like to thank to many prestigious lace authors as: Patricia Read, Lucy Kincaid, Eva Liisa Kortelahtti, Jana Novak, Brigitte Bellon, Bridget Cook, Marie Sedlakova, Anne de Wild, and so many other anonymous lacemakers devoted to laces, who have helped me to learn bobbin lace.
The most ancient mention, known at the present day, of bobbin lace in Italy, occurs in a deed, drawn up at Milan the 12th September, 1493, of assignment of property to two sisters, Angela and Ippolita Sforza, Visconti.
Probably, lace was known in Russia in sixteen cent., as in the end of 17nth. cent., and later was widely used, forming a new type of decorative applied art. Coming from Western Europe, Russian lacemaking has not only preserved and developed the best traditions of lacemakers in European countries, but has become a genuine national art form. Read more..