Important links
NSW Branch news
Contact Pauline Garland (em: polly3009@optusnet.com.au) if you are interested in learning crochet lace online using Zoom.
ALG NSW, Website and weblog: http://www.lacemaking.com.au/sydney.html
ALG NSW, Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NswBranchAustralianLaceGuild/
ALG NSW, Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AusLaceGuildNSW/
ALG NSW, Instagram: www.instagram.com/nsw_lace_guild
Queanbeyan Lace Makers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QBNlacemakers/
Contact Stefanie: qbnlacemakers@gmail.com
Jervis Bay Lacemakers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/209562546974533
Powerhouse Museum Ultimo
Powerhouse Museum Lace Study Centre volunteers are cordially invited to participate in weekly online textile briefings via Zoom or telephone, 10.30am each Tuesday. PHM Volunteers (Mon-Fri) have a Zoom meeting from 9.30am each day and 12noon Friday for Weekend Volunteers. Contact the Volunteer Centre for more details. Volunteers are likely to begin demonstrating lace to the public again starting in the first week of April.
Powerhouse Museum podcasts, including textiles: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1183688
Powerhouse Museum Collection Conversation, showcasing lace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqbe4Db2yTc&feature=youtu.be
Social media
Bobbin Lace Downunder, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1010713895962787/
Bobbin Lace Makers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bobbinlacemakers/
Needle Lace Australia, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/489032435165805/
Lace8 lace design software, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lace8Users/
ALG Victorian Branch Lace Collection to view 119 items of lace online at:
https://victoriancollections.net.au/organisations/australian-lace-guild---victorian-branch?fbclid=IwAR3ki4Yi0UJEDMY4rCfhwry9fK2qK_g2twTQR-6u5-acAxCtRf2XS--mvjs#collection-records
A Facebook dedicated to helping lacemakers and bobbin collectors identify (mainly UK) bobbin makers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lacebobbinsfindthemaker
Facebook, Lace Guild Lockdown: https://www.facebook.com/groups/888608224958952
Overseas news
Follow the OIDFA Congress website at oidfa2020.org
Kantcentrum Brugeshas published sixteen free weekly lace online challenges in a variety of lace styles (Torchon, Bruges Flower, needle lace, etc.). Participants have forwarded their work to Bruges for an exhibition there. Details on Facebook at A P-lace Together: https://www.facebook.com/groups/299120214389826/
Hotel de la Dentelle/The Lace Centre in Brioude, France, has posted a bookmark pattern in 50/2 thread (useful if you want practice with dropping in/out colour) on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hoteldeladentellebrioude/
Online lace resources: suppliers, patterns, learning
Jenny Brandis (WA) has YouTube videos, lace patterns (including her Pattern-of-the-Month) from Etsy: http://www.brandis.com.au/
Covid-19 Global Quilt, drawing on contributions of virtual squares from textile artists around the world: @covid19quilt on Instagram.
Traders and suppliers in the UK (and elsewhere) are selling online - a seller trades online over a 24-hour period via Facebook Lace Suppliers Spotlight: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lacesuppliersspotlight
Free patterns, free craft books, free resources, free makers library, free knitting patterns, free crochet patterns, free embroidery patterns, free lace patterns: https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/bobbin.htm
One of many press articles devoted to the lace collars of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – hear, from a lacemaker who made one of them: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/elena-kanagy-loux-ruth-bader-ginsburg-lace-collar?fbclid=IwAR169InaI-XudDJEg6730kaEfYNNFdGSv6vm2ZLFXtH1ggE4BeUZWYO5B0A
https://thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html for all manner of paid lace workshops online.
Lace face masks and downloadable pdf patterns - Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MarikamiLace
Contact Pauline Garland (em: polly3009@optusnet.com.au) if you are interested in learning crochet lace online using Zoom.
ALG NSW, Website and weblog: http://www.lacemaking.com.au/sydney.html
ALG NSW, Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NswBranchAustralianLaceGuild/
ALG NSW, Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AusLaceGuildNSW/
ALG NSW, Instagram: www.instagram.com/nsw_lace_guild
Queanbeyan Lace Makers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QBNlacemakers/
Contact Stefanie: qbnlacemakers@gmail.com
Jervis Bay Lacemakers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/209562546974533
Powerhouse Museum Ultimo
Powerhouse Museum Lace Study Centre volunteers are cordially invited to participate in weekly online textile briefings via Zoom or telephone, 10.30am each Tuesday. PHM Volunteers (Mon-Fri) have a Zoom meeting from 9.30am each day and 12noon Friday for Weekend Volunteers. Contact the Volunteer Centre for more details. Volunteers are likely to begin demonstrating lace to the public again starting in the first week of April.
Powerhouse Museum podcasts, including textiles: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1183688
Powerhouse Museum Collection Conversation, showcasing lace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqbe4Db2yTc&feature=youtu.be
Social media
Bobbin Lace Downunder, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1010713895962787/
Bobbin Lace Makers, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bobbinlacemakers/
Needle Lace Australia, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/489032435165805/
Lace8 lace design software, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lace8Users/
ALG Victorian Branch Lace Collection to view 119 items of lace online at:
https://victoriancollections.net.au/organisations/australian-lace-guild---victorian-branch?fbclid=IwAR3ki4Yi0UJEDMY4rCfhwry9fK2qK_g2twTQR-6u5-acAxCtRf2XS--mvjs#collection-records
A Facebook dedicated to helping lacemakers and bobbin collectors identify (mainly UK) bobbin makers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lacebobbinsfindthemaker
Facebook, Lace Guild Lockdown: https://www.facebook.com/groups/888608224958952
Overseas news
Follow the OIDFA Congress website at oidfa2020.org
Kantcentrum Brugeshas published sixteen free weekly lace online challenges in a variety of lace styles (Torchon, Bruges Flower, needle lace, etc.). Participants have forwarded their work to Bruges for an exhibition there. Details on Facebook at A P-lace Together: https://www.facebook.com/groups/299120214389826/
Hotel de la Dentelle/The Lace Centre in Brioude, France, has posted a bookmark pattern in 50/2 thread (useful if you want practice with dropping in/out colour) on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hoteldeladentellebrioude/
Online lace resources: suppliers, patterns, learning
Jenny Brandis (WA) has YouTube videos, lace patterns (including her Pattern-of-the-Month) from Etsy: http://www.brandis.com.au/
Covid-19 Global Quilt, drawing on contributions of virtual squares from textile artists around the world: @covid19quilt on Instagram.
Traders and suppliers in the UK (and elsewhere) are selling online - a seller trades online over a 24-hour period via Facebook Lace Suppliers Spotlight: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lacesuppliersspotlight
Free patterns, free craft books, free resources, free makers library, free knitting patterns, free crochet patterns, free embroidery patterns, free lace patterns: https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/bobbin.htm
One of many press articles devoted to the lace collars of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – hear, from a lacemaker who made one of them: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/elena-kanagy-loux-ruth-bader-ginsburg-lace-collar?fbclid=IwAR169InaI-XudDJEg6730kaEfYNNFdGSv6vm2ZLFXtH1ggE4BeUZWYO5B0A
https://thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html for all manner of paid lace workshops online.
Lace face masks and downloadable pdf patterns - Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MarikamiLace