Hottle explains: "I now own a bolster pillow, Idrija bobbins and Slovenian thread, so I guess you could say I'm hooked!" Reardon, 68, who lives in Mercer, took up lace making when her three grown ...

However, the fine thread can slip off the needles unnoticed ... Once he discovered lace knitting, making anything of substance in a matter of days or weeks became impossible.

I’m the ninth generation of my family to be in the lace trade. The Cluny Lace factory, near Nottingham, was built in the 1880s, but we had machines in Ilkeston and Long Eaton before then.

braiding or knotting threads either by hand or by machine. The main categories of handmade lace are needle lace, bobbin lace and decorated nets. Needle lace is created by making looped or knotted ...

or from many threads: bobbin lace. Earlier, the fabric that were used to make laces, however, were restricted to linen and silk. Later, the 19th century saw an evolution in lace making and was ...

her fingers rapidly stitching blue thread. “Table runners take a week to make because of the detail of each flower. Thongs you can make faster.” Barska, who has stitched lace for 35 years and ...

“For the more modern, or nontraditional pieces, I use all kinds of threads and yarn.” She feels today’s lace makers should make more garments, jewelry and wallhangings, and fewer trims and ...