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had to delete the other video as I had an audio mistake :/.
Here once again and hopefully correct this time, my bobbin lace video featuring czech lace.
#BobbinLace
https://youtu.be/8hQuf2WHU9M
We (the lace community) bring in international teachers to the US all the time. Now, this is way too risky. I wouldn't invite or encourage anyone to come in to the US right now. Even if they think their paperwork is tidy.
I'm so sorry, world. But don't come here now.
#BobbinLace #immigration #ICE #CBP
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5393847-jfk-new-jersey-ice-facility-immigration-crackdown/
Wow, these monster sized lace pillows they use in #Portugal are impressive.
Story about #BobbinLace celebrated in Peniche.
I hear Portugal is a place that people from the US might want to go if things get worse here. I'm keeping a list of international lace towns in my back pocket....
ich hab nochnichtmal mit dem klöppeln selbst angefangen und ich sehe schon überall kleine tierchen! wo soll das denn noch enden?! 
sieht ihr sie auch die winzigen fopses? 
wie süß sie über ein mäuerchen gucken mit ihren vorderpfötchen darauf abgestützt.
does anyone know of a place which breaks down all sorts of lace-making techniques?? lace types, different traditions etc. or your favorite teaching resource on any type of lace you like? much obliged! 
I'm finally done. There are so many mistakes but I don't care, as I will probably never look at it again.
#BobbinLace
Meine Familie ist selbst aus dem Erzgebirge, nur wenige Kilometer von Boží Dar. Für mich ist Klöppeln nicht nur ein Hobby, es ist gewissermaßen ein Weg, meine Familiengeschichte und auch die Geschichte und das Vermächtnis von Dora Richter in Ehren zu halten. (3/3)
https://lili-elbe.de/blog/2024/08/dora-richter-trans-raetsel-um-verbleib-geloest/
Holy #BobbinLace Gods! Alex Stillwell has made a number of her really high quality books and pamphlets available for download.
At least one of them is really hard to find in print now. Someone in my lace group wanted a copy of that Floral Bucks Point and couldn't find it for sale.
These are wonderful. Get them if you lace.
#Lace #BucksPoint #teneriffe #NeedleLace
https://alexstillwell.wordpress.com/books-and-booklets-free-downloads/
Here is the #BobbinLace graphic.
I love working the grid pattern at the foot side but I'm struggling with the half stitch zigzag stripe.
Once I've got enough experience I might try to replace that with a cloth stitch zigzag, and the cloth stitch diamonds perhaps with spiders. If that works okay with the palm head side. Maybe not. Half stitch diamonds is likely a better idea. The diamond makes placement more logical.
Anyway, I need to try out and practice spiders first, haven't done those yet.
...next one. But am having difficulty seeing what I've done well enough to work out which pair to pick up. So this yarn is too thin.
I will have to bite the bullot and print the chart much bigger, go back to the first yarn and do a repeat or two of this #BobbinLace pattern before I can return to the thinner thread and see what this lace pattern/thread combo is like. Might find I don't like it.
My silk thread would be lovely but I only want to work with it once I can follow this chart.
Ho-hum.
I'm practising #BobbinLace again. I found a vintage pattern where you can print the chart for free, it's called Das Palmenblatt (the palm leaf), it also has written instructions that I really should follow but can't be bothered to. It just takes so much longer to read those and follow them than looking at the graphic and trying to imitate that. With the result that I keep getting confused about which pair of bobbins I'm supposed to use either side of the transition to another stitch...
Oh this is cool.
A dragon in bobbin lace! (Also called pillow lace in some places.)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1661227285/bobbin-lace-dragon-pattern-pdf-lace
See, I can do simple bobbin lace patterns like this. That complex lace from 200+ years ago... I need an actual teacher and a whole lot of patience lol.
Maybe I should look for simple bobbin lace patterns.
I'm fascinated watching bobbin lace making videos on YouTube. I started watching those by several Italian lace makers, they do such lovely work and the visuals are clear enough so you can see what they're doing. I think I'm picking up on some of the vocabulary in use that's where the list from the above post comes from. I hope I got it right. Can anyone confirm or correct the list?
I particularly enjoy videos from The LaceMaker Diary:
https://youtu.be/rrRPrAlA2-g?si=AIlvQQtaecF0pGQl
The Lace Guild Triennial Exhibition 2025
'Treasure' takes place 16th of July to 9th of August
Please see https://www.laceguild.org/ for details and location
And this is my favourite #BobbinLace piece that I made. The tension of the second half is better than the first, I'll look out for that next time, and I'm extremely pleased that my leaf tallies came out alright. When I first tried to make them (decades ago when I first taught myself), they were beyond wonky and made me frustrated. More practice now made a big difference!
I love this. It is the sort of thing that made me want to pick up bobbin lace making again.
I couldn't stop making this #BobbinLace trim, I made lots more of it than I meant to. Maybe close to a meter.
I'll wait for inspiration about how I want to use it.
These are my practice #BobbinLace pieces. I'm not yet following the pattern chart correctly all the way through (the bigger black trim), the yellow went badly wonky so I abandoned that, and I struggled with the white linen yarn that didn't say that it's waxed.
I enjoyed the pink/reddish yarn the most, it's an embroidery yarn that I bought off etsy because I liked the look of it.
Also, Anton von Maron was SUPERB at capturing lace. This 1763 portrait was astonishing to me. The link will describe the other details, but let me show you the close up of this lace.
And yes, I got reprimanded for being under 2 feet from the painting that I didn't know was a rule. I know now.
