My Teaching

Over the past twenty years I’ve taught many people to make bobbin lace — some have taken to it like ducks to water, others have struggled a bit at first but got there in the end, while a few have decided it’s not for them. I enjoy making lace and I want my students to enjoy making lace too, so I try to provide the instruction they need while recognizing that everyone has different ideas about what they want to achieve and a different demands on their time. I have a set syllabus for beginners which they can work through at their own pace, and once they’ve done that I suggest various possibilities, but the final choice of what to work on next is theirs. In most classes everyone is doing something different so I’ve had to learn to be versatile.

I teach Torchon, Bucks Point and Bedfordshire lace to advanced level, but can also cover the basics of other laces including Honiton, Bruges, and Milanese together with needlelace and tatting. I also teach lace identification, and have lead short identification workshops for the Lace Guild at its Conventions and one-day Lace Study Sessions at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. The most recent of these was for museum textile curators under the auspices of Dress and Textile Specialists (DATS) and the booklet that accompanied this workshop can be downloaded from their website under Resources.

In addition to lacemaking, I teach workshops on assorted braids for beginners including braids on cards, lucet braids, tablet-woven braids and hand-manipulated braids. Please if you would like any further information.

My Teaching Schedule for 2018

Weekly classes: Wednesday mornings and afternoons in Glasgow

25th to 30th November: Lacemaking Holiday, Gartmore House, Scotland

My Teaching Schedule for 2019

Weekly classes: Wednesday mornings and afternoons in Glasgow

Glasgow May Course: 24th to 26th May

Lacemaking Holidays at Gartmore House, near Aberfoyle, Scotland

10th to 15th February

3rd to 8th March

14th to 19th April

30th June to 5th July

1st to 6th September

24th to 29th November