Register for Studies in Antique Lace (Oct-Nov)

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Instructor: Elizabeth Kurella

Course Description: Elizabeth will share the history, details and stories of a variety of lace topics. Feel free to choose some or all of them. Receive a 20% discount when buying any three or more classes.

Level: Beginner / Intermediate

Prerequisites: None, but some understanding of lacemaking would be helpful.

Monday, October 13, 2025
Color in Antique Bobbin Lace: Through the study of color in antique bobbin lace, discover the sophistication, creativity, and whimsy shared by widely diverse French and Italian high fashion lace and Eastern European peasant costume lace. Analyze details of technique and structure in the trails, tallies, and masses in design that can be used today.

Monday, October 27, 2025
Look-alike Lace: Good designs in lace always were appreciated and more successful in the marketplace - leading to imitations by anyone with a skill to copy them. From home-crafted copies inspired by high fashion laces of the past, to one major lace industry imitating the success of another, to machine copies of classic laces, look-alike examples of old lace are fun to find and collect - and possibly to copy yet again in another technique.

Monday, November 10, 2025
How Machines Made Lace: Explore the astonishing variety and capabilities of lace machines from the late 1700s through early 1900s. Lace made by machine seldom gets the respect it deserves, yet the designing, building, and running of those machines was as amazing a human achievement as hand lacemaking. Sometimes cleverly imitating handmade, other machine laces are masterpieces of original design and execution worthy of collecting in their own right.

Monday, November 24, 2025
Handmade or Machine-made?: One of the most common questions about antique lace – is it hand- or machine-made? For an answer, pull out your magnifier and delve into the substance of the lace, the thread manipulations. This class will explore laces that are especially well known (such as Chantilly), ones that have namesakes that are marketed today (such as Alençon), and some that are likely to show up in family collections (such as Duchesse, Point de Gaze, Battenberg, and Irish Crochet).

Times: 10:00 am -12:00 pm PST / PDT

Second Camera: Not required