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Good morning Lacemaker
Stop Press! Volume II of ‘All about making Honiton Lace’ is now available for free downloading. We are working on Volume III and we are hoping it will be ready in Summer of 2027. Also available are ‘All about making Floral Bucks Point Lace’, many of my booklets and three papers. Look under tab ‘Books and booklets for free download’. ‘Instructions for printing and scaling the document’ are provided.
I was born in Essex where I live until 1990 when I moved to Sussex. I have two children and four grandchildren.
As an only child I was encouraged to develop an enquiring and independent mind. My parents were always ready to discuss any subject with me and taught me how to find answers to my questions. I qualified as a maths and science teacher specialising in physics and taught ages 11 to 18 years at St Edwards C of E Comprehensive school.
A girls hobby book, which I purchased in a street market, contained a section on lace making. This was to change my life. By 1973 I had taught myself sufficient about the subject to start teaching lace making for the Essex Handicraft Association. I also taught for several adult education centres, including Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology, Chelmsford Adult Education Authority and also for West Dean and Knuston Hall Residential Colleges. I also taught two classes of the City and Guilds Lace Making Pilot Scheme.
As well as in UK, I have demonstrated lace making and exhibited my lace in the USA, Tenerife, France and Northern Ireland and taught courses at USA and Australian Conventions, I was a section winner in the Lace Guild International Exhibition in 1995 and won the medal at the Sansepulcro International Exhibition 1996.
Quite early on I discovered there were few practical books on lace making, so I started writing, and to date have published eight books, three papers and 13 booklets.
As well as lace making, I enjoy dancing and as an accredited Round Dance cuer and teacher and have travelled across Europe, USA and Canada in that capacity
Bobbin Lace 