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…

Happy Canada Day 2020!

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…

Prizes from Barkonie, s.r.o., have been mailed!

April 29, 2020   Prizes from Barkonie to all Europe-based recipients have been mailed and we hear that some of them already arrived! We wish all recipients, the winners of 3rd lace|heart|art challenge 2020, a lot of inspiration for many creative projects with those wonderful threads: We really appreciate Barkonie‘s generous sponsorship of our event. Especially now, when due to restrictions caused by the…

3rd lace|heart|art prizes unveiled

Prizes for 3rd lace|heart|art challenge winners are ready. Colourful linen, cotton and metallic threads from  Barkonie s.r.o. (Czech Republic) for winners in Fibre and Young Lacemakers Categories, and enamelled copper wires form Wire Lace Supplies (Canada) for winners of Wire Lace Category, will be mailed as soon as possible. We hope that these simple materials will be soon transformed into beautiful lace art! Please,…

3rd lace|heart|art online exhibition 2020 is now open!

Please welcome to the 3rd lace|heart|art International Challenge and Online Exhibition of Handmade Bobbin Lace in Colour