1. April 3-5: Beautiful Curves and Sharp Corners, taught by Ilske Thomsen. This 3-day workshop is being held in Fairfax, VA, from 10 am to 4 pm each day. Students will make several sorts of curves and corners in Torchon lace technique, and decorative corners for different lace types. If there is enough time the students will work a whole piece with lots of Torchon grounds, and they will make Point ground lace corners. This class will help students brush up on their technique and improve an area of lacemaking that many of us have difficulties with, making great-looking corners and curves in our laces. Cost for the workshop is $108 if you are not a member of the CRLG.
2. April 7-9: Chantilly workshops, taught by Ilske Thomsen. This 3-day class is being held in Catonsville, MD, from 10 am to 4 pm each day. The workshop will cover making Chantilly lace, with everyone starting from the beginning to make certain we all have a grasp of the proper techniques involved in making this beautiful lace, and allowing students to progress to more difficult patterns if they have had some experience with Chantilly before. The workshop fee for nonmembers is $108, and there is a $20 fee for purchase of the unboiled silk threads that the guild ordered from Denmark to be used in this class.
3. April 30-May 2: Mechlin workshop, taught by Ulrike Loehr Voelcker. This 3-day class is being held in Olney, MD, from 10 am to 4 pm each day. The workshop will cover the basics of Mechlin lace for beginners, and students with previous Mechlin experience to progress to advanced techniques in this lace. Ulrike writes that this is a lovely lace, and there is nothing to fear either from the lace or from her! Cost for the workshop is $108 for nonmembers.
4. July 15-17: Flanders or Binche workshop, taught by Michael Giusiana. This 3-day class is being held in Catonsville, MD, from 10 am to 4 pm each day. Students may choose to work on either Flanders or Binche lace, and may be at any level of experience with these types of fine Continental laces from complete beginner to more-experienced lacemaker. Cost for the workshop is $108 for nonmembers.
You may write to me for more information on any of these workshops.
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