Videos on Demand
The videos on demand are delivered and managed by a service called FlickRocket, and when you buy a video, you will receive a link to view it from several different places. There are a few extra steps the first time you buy an on-demand video and after that it will be much quicker. Here is a document with helpful instructions.
Recorded by The Lace Museum – based on popular Virtual Classes
Lectures to be watched on demand, some organized into series but also available to purchase individually.
Color in Antique Lace with Elizabeth Kurella
Instructor: Elizabeth Kurella
Through the study of color in antique bobbin lace, discover the sophistication, creativity, and whimsy shared by widely diverse French and Italian high fashion lace and Eastern European peasant costume lace. Analyze details of technique and structure in the trails, tallies, and masses in design that can be used today.
Price: $28 for permanent* access to the video.
* Unlimited access for as long as the technology can deliver it. We expect it to be many years.
Studies in Antique Lace – Series 1: Reading Lace with Elizabeth Kurella
Instructor: Elizabeth Kurella
If threads could talk, what stories would they tell of history, fashion, and society? This series uses the analogy of learning to read lace as we read language. Both take small individual units and build them up into meaningful structures. Both have, over the centuries, evolved in appearance, usage and meaning. Both provide ways to view and appreciate our place in society and history.
This series is designed as a useful introduction to get beginners up to speed to better understand and appreciate the content of the further Studies In Antique Lace programs.
Lesson 1: Understanding and Reading Lace
If we study each of these levels – thread manipulations, motifs or bits and pieces, the substance of lace and then the actual object – we can get a long way in gathering the information we most want to know about old lace – dates, places, value.
Lesson 2: The Alphabet of Lace
Individual thread manipulations or stitches are the letters of the alphabet of lace. In this lesson we explore the basic kinds of thread manipulations – the building blocks of lace – and how they are the foundation for understanding how to identify and study lace.
Lesson 3: The Words of Lace
The first part of this lesson shows how thread manipulations are combined to form bits and pieces – the words of lace. Then we consider how we might communicate information about those bits and pieces to others, by putting names to the bits of lace.
Lesson 4: The Sentences and Stories of Lace
In this final lesson in reading lace, we see how all the pieces come together, and how we can use all the clues we can find in lace to figure out many of the things we want to know about the lace.
Price: $16 per lesson for permanent* access to the video.
* Unlimited access for as long as the technology can deliver it. We expect it to be many years.
Professional Videos – created by Hensel Productions
Classes to be watched on demand, also available on thumb drive or DVD.
Introduction to Flanders Lace with Sally Schoenberg
Sally Schoenberg, now living in New Mexico, has been teaching lacemaking in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and at IOLI conventions since 1991. Her greatest enjoyment, second only to making lace, is seeing a student go from frustration and bewilderment to “Aha! Now it makes sense!”
Modern Flanders lace is a 19th century revival of a fiveholed grounded lace that was made in the 1600’s in many parts of lacemaking Europe. The Flanders lace working diagram can be particularly confusing. At many pins, a pair of bobbin pairs are worked; and, the frequent exchanges of passive and worker pairs crank up the level of confusion even more. In this video, Sally tames the diagram. She shows how to identify the elements of modern Flanders lace on a diagram and how to use those components to make a piece of Flanders lace. In this program three edging patterns are used to teach the essential techniques: 5-hole ground, half of a ground stitch, joining in two times, inputs, outputs , snowflakes and the overlapping finish. The skills learned can be used to make the many Old and Modern Flanders patterns that are listed in the included book resource list.
Running time: 3 hr 53 min
Contents: PDF file (pdf)
Downloaded file size: 2.4 GB
Patterns: This video has accompanying patterns. You will see a link to them when you view the video online or downloaded in the Flux Player.
Starts & Finishes with Susan Wenzel
Susan Wenzel, owner of Lacy Susan Lace Supplies, has been teaching bobbin lace for 18 years. She learned to make lace in 1987 in England and also studied in Belgium and Holland. In her most popular class, originally titled “Back to Basics,” she developed many of the techniques she uses to start and finish bobbin lace pieces.
In this program, Susan demonstrates her own unique approaches to starting and finishing a variety of torchon lace projects. Susan explains each of her techniques with diagrams and demonstrates them on the pillow. Projects include: a bookmark with a whole stitch start and a braided ending, a bookmark with a false footside start and a woven ending, a bookmark starting and ending with picots, a circular Torchon edging with a Flanders-style overlapped finish, an edging starting at the footside and an edging starting and finishing along a gimp thread.
Included with this program are four pattern sheets with the six projects Susan demonstrates on camera and two additional prickings for further practice along with working diagrams for each pattern.
Running time: 3 hr 40 min
Contents: PDF file (pdf)
Downloaded file size: 1.5 GB
Patterns: This video has accompanying patterns. You will see a link to them when you view the video online or downloaded in the Flux Player.
Chantilly Lace with Lia Baumeister-Jonker
Lia Baumeister-Jonker has been making lace since 1975. She served as President of the Dutch Lace Society, LOKK, for eight years. She was a founding member of the Board of Dutch Lace Education which runs courses for lace teachers and teaches numerous different laces. Lia has taught lace making in Holland, England, Germany, Canada and the USA.
Lia began to study Chantilly on a trip to France with LOKK. She has taught Chantilly at several IOLI conventions around the USA and given countless Chantilly workshops to individual lace groups.
Chantilly lace is a black silk point ground lace. It became popular in the 19th century and was used extensively on fashions and accessories. Motifs in Chantilly are most often worked in half stitch. Sometimes other decorative stitches are used in the lace. Chantilly is made with untwisted unboiled black silk threads; and for the coarse pairs, untwisted boiled black silk thread is used.
This video provides instruction in the techniques needed to make three edgings in Chantilly lace. A Chantilly bookmark pattern is included as extra practice in applying the techniques presented. One repeat of each edging pattern is worked on camera with pin-by-pin instruction. By viewing this tape from start to finish before beginning to make the lace, one will gain a good understanding of how Chantilly is made.
Running time: 3 hr 56 min
Contents: PDF file (pdf)
Downloaded file size: 2.1 GB
Patterns: This video has accompanying patterns. You will see a link to them when you view the video online or downloaded in the Flux Player.
Russian Tape Lace with Lia Baumeister-Jonker
Lia Baumeister-Jonker is a lace teacher with many years of experience. She has taught various types of lace and has given workshops all over the world. Lia has also written teaching materials for many types of lace.
Lace is made in several cities and provinces in Russia, such as Jeletz, Kirov, Ryazan, Moscow and Vologda. Each area has its own method of working the tapes. In making Russian Tape Lace colored threads can be used. If one prefers to use only white thread, that can be done also. In the traditional Russian laces of Vologda one sees both white laces and colored laces.
In this video, Lia shows how to make a Russian Tape Lace butterfly as it is made in Vologda. She gives instructions for the starting of the lace, a stem stitch, a chain stitch, a false plait, turning a corner, a variety of fillings and the finishing of the lace. An additional pattern for a doily is included for further practice.
Price: $42 for permanent* access to the video.
* Unlimited access for as long as the technology can deliver it. We expect it to be many years.
Running time: 2 hr 15 min
Downloaded file size: 1.4 GB
Contents: PDF file
Patterns: This video has accompanying patterns. You will see a link to them when you view the video online or downloaded in the Flux Player.
Schneeberger Lace with Lia Baumeister-Jonker
Lia Baumeister-Jonker has been making lace since 1975. She served as President of the Dutch Lace Society, LOKK, for eight years. She was a founding member of the Board of Dutch Lace Education which runs courses for lace teachers and teaches numerous different laces. Lia has traveled extensively around the world to study and teach many different types of lace.
Lia introduces you to this popular lace from the Erzgebirge region of Germany with background information on how this lace came to be made in this area. Four patterns are used to demonstrate how to make Schneeberger lace: two edgings, a flower motif, and a mat. Each of the following techniques is clearly shown using diagrams and demonstrations: starting the lace, 3-pair crossings, adding pairs for the outside plait, working the outside plait and connecting it to the lace, false plaits, working leaves, making crescent-shaped leaves, working around corners in both cloth stitch and whole stitch, working a Schneeberger dip, 4-pair crossings, adding in pairs for the fillings, taking plait pairs through the tape, the Marguerite filling, a leaf filling, sewing out and finishing with bundles.
An extra practice pattern is also provided to reinforce using the techniques presented in this program.
Running time: 4 hr 18 min
Contents: PDF file (pdf)
Downloaded file size: 6.3 GB
Patterns: This video has accompanying patterns. You will see a link to them when you view the video online or downloaded in the Flux Player.
Launch Schedule for Additional Videos
Color in Torchon with Jean Leader – October 2026