Needle Lace in Silver

Intensive Workshop for Beginners This workshop introduces needle lace with silver wire, and covers working with fine wire, creating simple stitches, adding beads and finishing. Students also learn about different grades of silver wire; how to choose beads and semi-precious stones compatible with silver; how to clean and care for delicate silver lace pieces. Class project: Needle lace pendant in silver with seed beads…

Needle Lace in Stainless Steel

Intensive Workshop for Beginners This workshop introduces needle lacemaking with stainless steel wire and covers basic steps of handling wire, using basic stitches (single, double, underlined and bars), adding beads and finishing. Two designs to choose from; both can be finished as pendants. One intensive session – 8 hrs of instruction. Pre-requisite: Needle Lace in Copper Wire workshop is helpful, but not necessary Location: SOUTH…

Lacemaking Workshops – Fall 2014

Series of three intensive workshops for beginners to introduce needle lace technique in wire – copper, stainless steel and silver. Instruction will cover basic stitches, building patterns, working with different wires and finishing. Main goal of the series is to equip lacemakers with skill and understanding of small scale needle lace techniques, so they can create their own designs and make lace jewellery or delicate…