New School of Lace Newsletter – Spring 2016

Creative lace ideas are just like cherry blossoms – they wait and hide until all conditions are perfect, and then they burst out and cover everything with delicate petals… That’s why so many blossom motifs find their way into lace designs, as the lacemakers try to save those precious moments in their work. And there is hardly any better technique for this purpose than…

Waves – Offering to the Moon

New work featured in the Gallery :

Lace for Beginners: Workshop, March 18, 2016

Flower Earrings – Bobbin Lace in Wire for Beginners is offered at Fibres West 2016! Workshop description: Lace made from simple braids is the easiest lace to learn, because everybody already knows how to make a braid! And that’s also how bobbin lace started – from braiding – more than 500 years ago. Braid work contains all basic stitches of bobbin lace, and those…

The Chicken or the Egg? Workshop, March 13, 2016

Welcoming spring is the most delightful activity in many cultures. On the West Coast of Canada, it means an end of long rainy winter days and arrival of sunlight and all other colours that go so well with our greys and greens. We cannot wait and the upcoming workshop is all about joy of working with coloured wires and beads and making everybody around…

Two Hearts Are More Than One – February 14, 2016

Continuing tradition of a heart workshop on Valentine’s Day, this year’s project is a new variation on the original theme. With more skills to rely on, the new heart design expands potential of tape lace embellished with beads, is easier to make and faster to finish as a 3-d object.  This workshop  discovers not only practical bobbin lace techniques, but will also reflect on…

Sparkle! Workshop, January 17, 2016

Description: Inspired by winter sky and earth, Sparkle! intensive workshop follows twinkle of stars and frozen crystals to discover lace patterns in our worlds, close and far, and find in them inspiration for creative expression. Lace is an open weave technique with enormous potential in variations of interpretation..Where to start? which stitches to use? how to create freely and how to finish? Sparkle! workshop…

New School of Lace – WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Winter/Spring 2016

January 17 “Sparkle!”  Free form needle lace in wire with crystals. Beginners/Intermediate  (Ocean Park, BC) February 14 “Two Hearts Are more than One”  New design on the original theme. Bobbin lace in wire. Intermediate level (Ocean Park, BC) March 13 “The Chicken or the Egg?”  Traditional Easter theme in wire lace. Egg decoration – needle lace in wire for beginners. Chickens – bobbin lace in wire…

Gift Certificates for Workshops and Classes

New School of Lace offers personalised Gift Certificates for workshops, courses, tools and materials, making it easy for you to fulfill lacemakers’ Christmas wishes. It is a gift that will bring joy for a long time!                                           Please contact us by e-mail or phone,…

Workshop – Christmas Ornament – Nov 29, 2015

Festive time of house decorating and gift giving is here, and nothing serve the purpose better than handmade ornaments. They are more than just objects, because they contains a lot of positive energy of the person who made them with intension of making somebody else happy. And Christmas doesn’t get better than that – sharing happiness and love. New School of Lace upcoming intensive…

Workshop – Falling Leaves – Oct 25, 2015

Autumn brings the best lace designs offered by nature – trees are undressing to show off their petticoats, leaves reveal their lacy skeletons and splendid cobwebs, defying wind, rain and brooms, embelish the world with the finest lace ever… It is an invitation to all lacemakers to present their skills with bobbins and needles and express their creativity.  This “Falling Leaves” workshop is open…