Good choices of videos ))) See how much you've learned already.... even without yet touching a bobbin )))). I left comment for the day-one video. Well done. How come we live 2000 miles distant from each other? Not fair!
Yes, not fair! But thanks for this vote of confidence, Kate. You have taught me so much, I am trying to "pay it forward" as best I can. I worry about making mistakes. Nice to know I got it right this time.
Great post! I remember spending time with a lacemaking group and talking about the 'spangles' on their bobbins - I used to make glass beads, and it was nice to see beads sometimes being used in the tools for lacemaking. It's always great when crafts collide! :D
Have a look at my post 21 to get an idea. It’s not strictly glassblowing, which is a larger-scale process. My technique is called lampwork, or lampworking, in which a glass rod is melted in the flame and a hot gather of molten glass wound around a steel mandrel and turned repeatedly in the flame, using heat and gravity to shape it. Where the mandrel is removed that’s where the hole is. It’s great fun! I had to give up my rented workshop because of Covid, so I no longer teach my craft. I do wish I’d kept my website, though! Oh well!
Very nice, bravo to Kate, she is Great - you should ask her for the photos from the fair were she was actually teaching children and adults to make bobbin lace! And Bravo to you for excellent writing and Lace Education!
Thanks, Anna. Nice to hear from you. I have seen some of Kate's photos from her re-enactment events. So much fun to see her in period costume weaving, dying wool, spinning, making lace. A woman of so many talents. I am so fortunate to have met her.
Good choices of videos ))) See how much you've learned already.... even without yet touching a bobbin )))). I left comment for the day-one video. Well done. How come we live 2000 miles distant from each other? Not fair!
Yes, not fair! But thanks for this vote of confidence, Kate. You have taught me so much, I am trying to "pay it forward" as best I can. I worry about making mistakes. Nice to know I got it right this time.
Great post! I remember spending time with a lacemaking group and talking about the 'spangles' on their bobbins - I used to make glass beads, and it was nice to see beads sometimes being used in the tools for lacemaking. It's always great when crafts collide! :D
How do you make glass beads at home?? Not blown glass, surely? Now I am curious.
Have a look at my post 21 to get an idea. It’s not strictly glassblowing, which is a larger-scale process. My technique is called lampwork, or lampworking, in which a glass rod is melted in the flame and a hot gather of molten glass wound around a steel mandrel and turned repeatedly in the flame, using heat and gravity to shape it. Where the mandrel is removed that’s where the hole is. It’s great fun! I had to give up my rented workshop because of Covid, so I no longer teach my craft. I do wish I’d kept my website, though! Oh well!
Thanks, Rebecca. I will check it out.
Very nice, bravo to Kate, she is Great - you should ask her for the photos from the fair were she was actually teaching children and adults to make bobbin lace! And Bravo to you for excellent writing and Lace Education!
Thanks, Anna. Nice to hear from you. I have seen some of Kate's photos from her re-enactment events. So much fun to see her in period costume weaving, dying wool, spinning, making lace. A woman of so many talents. I am so fortunate to have met her.
Sharron, both of you are remarkable ladies, quite the Role Models!
Thank you, Anna!