Lenka's Way of LaceLenka’s Bobbins for Wire Lace – Thirty Years of Evolution (1991-2021)
1991 – First Attempts From the very beginning of my lacemaking journey, I had a vision that the delicate lace weave would look amazing in metal. I don’t know where that thought came from. My love for lace grew from love for textile techniques, and I never saw bobbin lace made in wire. When I settled in Canada, a land without any lacemaking tradition…
Freude! Joy!
A man who was baptized on this day two hundred and fifty years ago wearing a cap with gold lace and curious embroidered motif once said: “He who understands my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them”. How right he was and how fortunate we are to inherit his immortal music! This year especially, it has brought…
Story of the Old Wise Tree
Old Wise Tree is one of my oldest patterns. I designed it a long time ago, when I was learning basics of Torchon Lace. I came across a circular pattern that was supposed to be a simple doily, yet I saw more creative potential in it. The fans looked to me like a tree crown, and the ground like a net of twigs. At…
THREE TRILLION TREES
I love trees, they are amazing. Not just beautiful, majestic or useful… I believe they are truly wise. They live long lives and build a complex community with other organisms within their physical environment. There is an immense number of connections in the living sphere formed by the tree trunk, branches and leaves above the ground and a vast root system underground. And everything,…
Bohemian memento
As a lacemaker, who thinks and creates mostly in monochrome, two-dimensional plane, I am always totally amazed how classical music fills the entire space with colours and emotions, and how masterfully it evokes memories and conveys love… Music, like all other creations, starts as an idea in the head of a single man, who despite all odds, puts it on lined paper to record…
Christmas SALE December 2 – 22, 2020
In this very unusual year my lace studio wouldn’t have survived without online sales, and I am grateful for every order that I was able to fulfill. I have always preferred live lace events – classes, workshops, exhibitions, artisan markets – because I really enjoy connecting with people and sharing my passion for lace with them. Maintaining online presence is rather difficult for me,…
Spooky All Hallows’ Eve 2020
It’s been lonely in my lace studio lately – the only soul that has kept me a company was my dear friend, the Lace Maiden, who has been with me for twenty years and shared many of my lace adventures. When the local health authorities suggested a physically distant Hallowe’en celebration, I did not have to look far for my substitute. To make the…
