For The Love Of Lace

14/03/2026

Sunday the 22nd of March we highly recommend you join this fantastic workshop on the Lacemakers of the Tomorrow!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lacemakers-of-tomorrow-tickets-1983952041964

14/03/2026

Don't miss our Treasures from History session where we will be looking at Wiltshire lace and those that produced it!

Saturday 28th March 11am-12pm

Email [email protected] to book a place

02/03/2026

Very excited to start reading this large rare book. I have been trying to find a copy of this for quite sometime, and, it’s said that “everything comes to those who waits” and that is so true. It was published in 1983 by The Victoria and Albert museum in London. This was also the year when I first started to be taught to make lace so I have waited a fair amount of time to find this and to get it at a reasonable price.

21/02/2026

This video has been on YouTube for some time, parts of it show a lacemaker outside her cottage, making lace. This lady is Annie Goodfield, she was taught by her grandmother and also attended Lady Suffolks lace school in Malmesbury in the early part of the last century. I now demonstrate lacemaking at Malmesbury museum, and also help at the lacemaking days, a chance for people to have a go at this ancient craft. One of those days was this week, a couple in their twenties came in and asked if they could have a try, the man said he had a video, could he show me, the film was taken outside the house he now lives in. So I watched and said “ Oh that’s Annie, Annie Goodfield” he was amazed, so I went and found one of the leaflets available in the museum, which tells Annie’s story. Annie’s grandmother asked her to keep Malmesbury lace alive, which she did. I was lucky to be taught lacemaking by Joan Blanchard, who wrote a book all about Malmesbury lace, now I hope I’m doing my bit to keep Malmesbury lace alive too.

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14/02/2026

Big box arrived today, looks like I got some sorting out to do !

13/02/2026

Just a few photos of my demonstrating of the making of Malmesbury lace at Malmesbury museum in Wiltshire. I will be doing this every other week on Wenesdays this year. It’s free to visit, they have a display about lacemaking, and lots of other local history too.

08/02/2026

To all my friends who follow my page, this is very important to Lace making as a whole, you do not need to be a lacemaker, there are only three simple questions to answer, and it could have a great influence on lacemaking in the future.

17/01/2026

So, bobbins seem to have been coming thick and fast in the last couple of weeks, more than 300 !, but more of that another time. This one antique bone bobbin came with some wooden bobbins, old and new, from a friend at Glevum lacemakers. The head is missing, the wire decoration gone and no spangle, a bit of pressure on hubby and how we have a bobbin looking something like it did 150 years ago.

04/01/2026

01/01/2026

Happy New Year to you all, hope you had some lovely lace related presents for Christmas as I was lucky enough to receive this antique French lacemaking pillow. As you can see from the photos the bobbins, pins and lace was very tangled up which took me 4 hours to sort out and put right and then another hour to tie in some broken threads and get the lace flattened out. The bobbins are unusual as they have pre wound thread in paper cones made by Le Tjevoli, the head comes off the bobbin so you can slide the paper cones on and refit the bobbin head. This was a very quick bobbin thread refill which kept the thread clean. Tjevoli is an anagram of the surname Jolivet. Madame Jolivet who invented this bobbin and thread system was an experienced lacemaker who won a medal in 1899 at a national exhibition in France. In her shop in Le Mans she taught lacemaking. The pillow roller has news paper packing out the pattern which I have not disturbed, but I can see is dated 1912, if only the pillow and bobbins could tell their story ! PS. there were 2 bobbins missing, luckily I had one in my collection with the paper cone but if anyone out there has a spare Tjevoli bobbin and cone I would be very interested in purchasing it. This would complete the pillow as I have had to add an odd bobbin in.

29/06/2025

Set up and ready to demonstrate at Sevington Victorian School.