Location: North Hill Community Club, Des Moines, WA This workshop is geared to bobbin lacemakers whose skills are at the intermediate level or above. Sign-up for Ulrike Voelcker March 2015 Below is an excerpt from Eileen's description of the class from the newsletter: Ulrike Voelcker is coming to LPS in March 2015 to teach this “new” lace. She has written a book based on a piece of lace she found in Europe. This style of lace has been unknown in the lace world until now, and has been shown to many lace experts, all of whom have never seen it. It has techniques similar to Chantilly and Flanders, but the beautiful gimp is very unusual, being 4 woven strands, rather than the traditional 1 strand which works through lace. [...] One thing that Ulrike does which I really appreciate is to give you the option to use a thread size you are more comfortable with (aka, I can see what I am doing!) In particular, you can use a larger thread that is easier to see until you understand the construction of the stitches. She has a page of suggested threads and conversion factors for the prickings. If you are going to take the class, I highly recommend using one of the larger threads and enlarged prickings for the first piece. I also recommend that you do NOT use black thread for the first piece. The original lace is very light and made with fine thread. The prickings in the book are sized for 4/20 silk, which is VERY fine. ![]() |