Lenka's Way of Lace
Bye Bye Butterfly Summer
The summer is over and I think that it will be remembered for a long time. The complete disruption to our life routines threw us all into unknown and uncharted territory. Adventurous people travel for that experience, to have their sense perceptions heightened by unfamiliar environment and stimulated to absorb everything new with acute urgency. This year felt like being on such an unmapped…
Summer Exhibitions
The Offering: Red Berries has been accepted to the “Island Wilds” visual arts show at the Ptarmigan Gallery on Pender Island, BC. It is a home island of Thuja Wood Art and its proprietor, Colin Hamilton, who creates frames for my lace. You can find out more about his amazing works from red cedar wood salvaged on the Gulf Islands’ beaches in his blog, facebook…
Free Trial Pattern for Wire Lace
Give wire lace a try in this easy excercise! Handmade bobbin lace keeps evolving, and many contemporary lacemakers and lace artist use non-traditional materials, such as metal. In the last twenty years wire lace has gained considerable popularity, and more and more lacemakers are attracted to it. Lacemakers who work with fibre are often curious about working with wire: How difficult is it? Can…
Amazing Grace
May 12, 2020 Maybe you were one of tens of millions people who watched Andrea Bocelli’s Music For Hope – Live From Duomo di Milano on Easter Sunday. It was calming and moving at the same time to listen to Andrea’s beautiful voice singing hymns to Virgin Mary, praying for love and compassion that she embodies in Christian faith. Besides the singer and the organist…
