Virtual Education
All virtual education will take place via Zoom unless otherwise noted.
Resources for Successful Online Learning: We have a page describing the second camera/electronic device(s) you may need to participate online. You may also find a guide for participating in lace workshops over Zoom helpful. These guides were created by Jean Leader a lace teacher from Scotland and can be found at https://www.jeanleader.net/teaching/resources.html, scroll down to ZoomStudents.pdf.
Registration: Click the specific workshop’s registration link below to register via Google forms. When you finish the form, you will be presented with a link to go to Shopify to purchase the workshop. If the workshop is sold out when you try to check out, your registration with the form has automatically entered you on the waiting list.
Education Policies: Please review our policies regarding student participation, recordings, cancellations and refunds. These can be found on this page.
Future Sessions: The Lace Museum keeps an interest list for all past workshops and classes, as well as taking suggestions for new offerings. Please fill out our form here .
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Withof 2
Instructor: Kathy Kauffmann
Course Description: This class is designed as a follow-up to Withof I. We will learn a scroll and discuss working sequences, additional leaf designs and simple ways to work and enhance leaves. We will learn different veins in leaves and working methods. The class will be offered every other week to allow the students time to complete work between classes.
Skill Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Prerequisite: Kathy’s Withof 1 class
Dates: 4 Mondays – September 14, 28; October 12; November 2, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00am PDT / PST
Registration Fee: $100
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: A good quality image is necessary – so you will need to use a good camera close over your work and/or to take photos and send them to Kathy.
Schneeberger 2 – Bookmark
Instructor: Josée Poupart
Course Description: This is the second pattern in my Schneeberger series. With this bookmark you will learn to make a leaf-shaped tally, add color to the tally, cross a plait through the tape, cross with an exchange of weavers, invisibly finish in the tally, and finish with bundles.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: Josée’s Schneeberger 1 course and own a copy of “Schneeberger Lace,” by Lia Baumeister-Jonker. Having taken Josée’s Beginning of the End-1 course is useful, but not essential.
Dates/Time: 4 Thursdays – September 17, 24, October 8, 15; 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT Register
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Dates/Time: 4 Saturdays – November 14, 21, December 5, 12; 9:00 am – 11:00 am PST Register
Note: Some classes may last until 11:30
Registration Fee: $100
Students Must Provide: Supply list (pdf)
Second Camera: Required plus WhatsApp is needed to share photos.
Beginning of the End – Part 3
Instructor: Josée Poupart
Course Description: The book “The Beginning of the End” is a great resource for achieving invisible finishes in bobbin laces. But, it can be difficult to understand! Part 3 3 will practice the detour technique in two Rose grounds, and the Scandinavian ground. The Beginning of the End is complementary to Martina Wolter-Kampmann’s Invisible Starts and Finishes book and courses. Both are essential in my lacemaker’s toolbox.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Prerequisite: Beginning of the End Chapters 1 & 2 classes and own a copy of The Beginning of the End, by Ulrike Lohr (Voelcker)
Dates: 9 Fridays – Sep 18, 25; Oct 16, 23, 30; Nov 6, 13, 20; Dec 4, 2026
Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm PDT/PST
Registration Fee: $160
Students Must Provide: Supply list (pdf)
Second Camera: Recommended
WhatsApp: Recommended
Two Bruges Flowers
Instructor: Elizabeth Peterson
Course Description: Bruges flower lace is a traditional lace from Belgium. These 2 flowers will teach some of the basic skills, including the CTCT edge, dividing the petals, gaining on a pin, plaits and picots filling and the raised edge. This is a fun and traditional lace to make – come learn some new tricks to add to your lacemaking skills.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Good knowledge of basic lacemaking techniques such as Torchon.
Dates: 2 Tuesdays – September 22, October 27, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
Registration Fee: $55
Students Must Provide: DMC Cordonnet 80 or 100 (or Lizbeth, Coats, etc. 80) OR Mettler 30 OR Egyptian Cotton 36/2. Up to 14 pairs. Usual bobbin lace supplies.
Second Camera: Required
Lucet Work – Vikings to Victorians
Instructor: Ziggy Rytka
Course Description: Lucet cord, made with the simplest knitting stitch in the world….but there’s a knack. In the first two weeks we’ll progress from Fundamental that shows you “how the stitch works” to Fast Grab that shows you “how to work the stitch.” That done, the second two weeks are creativity and invention with avenues to explore the new craft of Advanced lucetting.
Skill Level: Beginner
Prerequisite: None
Dates: 4 Wednesdays – September 23, 30; October 14, 21, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 10:30am PDT
Registration Fee: $75
Kit: $22
Kit Description: Kit includes: Advanced lucetting booklet, Beginners Workshop leaflet, 1 lucet, 2 bobbins, 2 skeins pearl cotton thread, beads
Students Must Provide: Wind the threads in the kit onto the bobbins firmly prior to class. Separately string 10-20 beads 4mm or thereabouts onto a 1-meter piece of your thread.
Second Camera: Optional
Two-Sided-Torchon
Instructor: Nicole Gammie
Course Description: Ready for the next bobbin lace challenge? How about working two strips of lace at the same time that allows a pop or two of color to appear effortlessly on the other side? This class will help you achieve this challenge. In this class we will start a small strip and work a range of elements as shown in the picture. From here the sky is the limit with what you can create. For the best outcome, highly contrasting colors work best. The pattern is scaled for fine thread, but can be enlarged to fit your preferred thread.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: Able to work typical Torchon with little help. Comfortable with working diagrams.
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2026 (Thursday, November 5, in Australia)
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm PST (8:00 am – 11:00 am AEDT)
Registration Fee: $45
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: Recommended
Beginning Bucks Point
Instructor: Marion Warzel
Course Description: Bucks Point Lace is a beautiful English style of point ground lace. It is characterized by a hexagonal mesh ground and motifs defined by outlining gimp threads. In this class we learn the basics, including the point ground, picot, catch pin, gimp and honeycomb.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Intermediate experience with Torchon lace
Dates: 4 Tuesdays – October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm PDT
Dates and Times in Australia and New Zealand: 4 Wednesdays – October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026; 7am – 9am AWST / 9am – 11am AEST / 10am – 12pm AEDT / 12pm – 2pm NZDT
Registration Fee: $100
Students Must Provide: Supply list (pdf)
Second Camera: Required, and students will also email photos of homework once the field of pins is removed.
Beginning Needle Lace
Instructor: Linda Kay Benning
Course Description: Make this hot air balloon pattern to learn the basic and traditional techniques of needle lace – couching the initial outline, making decorative filling stitches with buttonhole (blanket) stitches, stitching the final outline. The piece is worked in relatively heavy Lizbeth 20 thread, in your choice of two colors, so the stitches are visible and easy to learn. A special card will be included to practice each stitch before starting on the balloon pattern.
Skill Level: Beginner
Prerequisite: None
Dates: 4 Thursdays – October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm PDT
Registration Fee: $100
Kit: $6
Kit Description: Instructions, stitching pad and pattern for balloon and practice sample, sewing thread, needles, needle threader.
Students Must Provide: Two colors of Lizbeth #20 cordonnet or similar thread, thread scissors, tweezers, thimble (optional), good light, and magnification if needed.
Second Camera: Strongly recommended
3D Needle Lace Flowers
Instructor: Loretta Holzberger
Course Description: This course is at the beginner level, but experienced needle lacers will also enjoy this project. You will learn 2 to 3 basic needle lace stitches while making wire-edged petals and leaves for 3D roses or tulips. Patterns for both are provided, and the course also includes techniques for putting the flowers together.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisite: None
Dates: 2 Mondays – October 12 & 26, 2026
Time: 10:am – 11:30am PDT
Registration Fee: $45
Kit: $10
Kit Description: Prepared patterns for roses, tulips and leaves, wire to edge the petals, pink #80 tatting thread to stitch the petals and green for leaves, stem wire and floral tape, stamens for tulip, and instructions. The instructor will mail the kits. Shipping is included. We should be able to mail them outside the US in a simple envelope, or email VirtualWorkshops@thelacemuseum.org to request a full supply list.
Students Must Provide: #24 tapestry needle, small sewing needle, sewing thread, scissors, and wire cutters
Second Camera: Recommended
Beginning Valsesian Puncetto
Instructor: Hanka Robertson
Course Description: Valsesian Puncetto or Puncetto Valsesiano® is a knotted lace technique specific to a small area in Italy’s Piemonte province. It is traditionally worked entirely “in hand” with no hoop or frame. It is characterized by symmetrical geometric patterns, especially grids of blocks. There are only two knots used throughout a project. It is the size of the thread used and the motifs chosen for the project design that determine the delicacy of the lace. In this class we will learn the two knots, how to create some basic motifs and how to read the characteristic charts that are used to show all patterns.
Skill Level: Beginner
Prerequisite: Comfortable reading some type of charted pattern, though not necessarily puncetto.
Dates: 6 Thursdays – October 22, 29, November 5, 12, December 3, 10, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT/PST
Registration Fee: $120
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: Optional
Studies in Antique Lace
Instructor: Elizabeth Kurella
Course Description: The magic of antique lace is in the stories of remarkable human creativity, achievement, diligence and sometimes just plain silly fun. Come time travel with lace collector, dealer, and maven Elizabeth Kurella as she dips into centuries of lace, presents some mysteries and unravels a few, and offers a universe of possibilities for lace making, design and inspiration. All using lace from her private collection.
Skill Level: Beginner / Intermediate
Prerequisite: None, but some understanding of lacemaking would be helpful.
Dates: 4 Classes – Mondays, November 2, 16, 30; December 14, 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Second Camera: Not required
Registration Fee: $12 per class
Beginning Flanders
Instructor: Kathy Kauffmann
Course Description: Experience for the first time or continue your studies of Belgian laces. Flanders is a Belgian lace with a unique 5 hole ground. It provides an excellent base for any other Belgian lace, especially Binche. Binche is a unique lace that uses elements of Flanders, Paris and Valenciennes. It is known for the beautiful snowflake ground and flowing elements.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: A very good knowledge of Torchon
Dates: 4 Tuesdays – November 3, 10, 24; December 1, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon PST
Registration Fee: $120
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: Required
Beginning Filet Crochet Lace
Instructor: Susan Lowman
Course Description: Filet Crochet Lace is the art of making pictures with the use of open and closed mesh. It is similar to Filet Lace, which is made with a needle, however, it is much faster and easier to make with a crochet hook. Filet Crochet Lace is great for making doilies, centerpieces, tablecloths, insertions, edgings and much more. In this 4-hour class, you’ll learn the basics of Filet Crochet (open mesh, closed mesh, lacets and making “square” mesh) while making a Filet Heart Coaster. You’ll learn to read a Filet Crochet chart, which is required to follow charted Filet Crochet Lace patterns. Then you’ll feel confident tackling any basic Filet Crochet project you see!
Skill Level: Beginner, Continuing Beginner
Prerequisite: Must know basic crochet stitches and be comfortable working with crochet threads, along with small steel crochet hooks. Must know how to read and follow written crochet patterns and/or symbol crochet charts.
Dates: 2 Thursdays – November, 5, 12, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Registration Fee: $60
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: Recommended
Julehjerter – Danish Woven Heart Basket
Instructor: Karen Thompson
Course Description: This heart basket is a traditional Danish decoration usually made in glossy red and white paper, creating a small pocket for candy or other treats. The baskets often have more than two strips. The author Hans Christian Andersen is thought to have designed the first one in the 1860s. This interpretation in Torchon lace includes rose ground and French fans.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: Students should be comfortable reading working diagrams and working fans, spiders, and grounds. If you are in our Introduction, Just Beyond the Basics and Skill-building classes, we recommend having taken at least two or three of the skill-building classes.
Date/Time: Friday, November 6, 2027; 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST Register
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Date/Time: Saturday, November 7, 2026; 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST Register
Registration Fee: $45
Students Must Provide: Two colors (typically red and white) of pearl cotton 8, linen 35/2, or similar (about 15-20 wpc), 16 pairs of bobbins, 8 pairs of each color, usual Torchon lace supplies.
Second Camera: Required
Bedfordshire Poinsettia Ornament
Instructor: Elizabeth Peterson
Course Description: Suitable for students just after the beginning Beds class. Learn several new techniques and use multiple magic threads to hide the ends of the red and green leaf weavers. Lots of magic thread fun.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner
Prerequisite: Beginning Bedfordshire lace
Dates: 2 Tuesdays – November 10 and 24, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Registration Fee: $55
Students Must Provide: Supply list (pdf)
Second Camera: Required
Bucks Point Snow Globe
Instructor: Marion Warzel
Course Description: This Bucks Point snow globe is a fun project to start the holiday season. In this class, we will be using the gimp to transport pairs as well as exploring a less frequently used Bucks filling in the base of the snow globe.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Lacemakers should be familiar with the point ground stitch, catch pins, and gimp.
Dates: 3 Tuesdays – November 10, 17, 24, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
Registration Fee: $100
Students Must Provide: Supply list (pdf)
Second Camera: Required
Invisible Starts and Finishes 2
Instructor: Martina Wolter-Kampmann
Course Description: Learn more about invisible joins and finishes, applying and building on your knowledge from Part 1. Here we will replace threads with magic threads in order to see no hint of closure at the end – a very sophisticated technique that is now being refined. You also learn how to use special knots and how to hide them, and how to divert the threads away from the outer edge.
Level: Advanced
Prerequisite: Martina’s Invisible Starts and Finishes 1
Dates: 3 Fridays – November 13, 20, 27, 2026
Time: 7:30 am – 1:00 pm PST with a 30-minute break
Registration Fee: $200
Students Must Provide:
- 14 pairs of bobbins
- Linen Londonderry thread in 3 colors or adequate cotton thread in dD 31. There should be good contrast between the pricking and threads
- Magic threads in 3 light colors
- Pins, Scissors and crochet hook as usual as in Part 1″
Second Camera: Not required to be suspended over work, but please have one available to photograph your work and send it to the teacher via WhatsApp or email.
Thread-Wrapped Christmas Buttons
Instructor: Karen Smock
Course Description: A temari is a traditional Japanese hand ball (“te” = hand, “mari” = ball) that evolved into a decorative craft featuring intricate thread patterns on a sphere. Its designs are either wrapped or embroidered onto the ball to form a wide variety of beautiful designs. In this class, you will learn how to adapt several of these traditional temari designs into buttons. We will be making large buttons for Christmas ornaments, and use festive threads to give your ornaments a lovely sparkle. Also, to complete your collection of wrapped designs, we will make an Otterbauer star ornament in coordinating threads.
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner
Prerequisite: Some experience with thread-wrapped buttons would be helpful.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Time: 9am – 12pm PST
Registration Fee: $45
Kit Description: The kit includes all necessary supplies except a scissors. Instructions will be emailed before class. Karen is still choosing some of the threads for the kit, so it will be available to purchase in a little while.
Students Must Provide: Scissors, pencil
Second Camera: Not required
Christmas Dorset Button Bauble
Instructor: Anna McDowell
Course Description: Every Christmas I design a Dorset Button using several different techniques. Five years ago, I designed this Christmas Bauble and over the years I’ve received a number of requests to repeat this design. It is a challenge for anyone who already knows how to make a Dorset Button using the Cartwheel design. This button uses four different techniques – beading, working in two different types of yarn at the same time, attaching a third yarn and finally, adding ribbon, and worked over the last two stages of making a Dorset Button, the Laying stage (adding the spokes) and the Rounding stage (filling in the button).
Skill Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: You must have some experience making a Dorset Cartwheel button since participants are asked to complete the first stage, Casting, before the workshop. We will start with threading the beads before the Laying stage (forming the spokes).
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Time: 9:15 am – 12:15 pm PST
Registration Fee: $45
Kit: $23
Kit Description: The kit includes a 72mm ring, star beads, silver yarn, mohair thread, colored metallic thread, ribbon, and needles.
Students Must Provide: A sharp ended needle threaded with white sewing thread, scissors.
Second Camera: Recommended
Victorian Women’s Buttons
Instructor: Karen Smock
Course Description: Step into the world of 19th century craftsmanship and learn to create the very buttons that adorned Victorian women’s clothing. Each class focuses on a different part of a Victorian woman’s wardrobe, giving you a hands-on look at how these small details shaped everyday dress.
Class 1 – Undergarment Buttons: Explore the humble yet ingenious buttons used on Victorian underpinnings and learn the techniques behind their construction.
Class 2 – Gown Buttons: Recreate the delicate and decorative buttons found on surviving Victorian dresses.
Class 3 – Coat & Hat Buttons: Make the sturdier, more sculptural buttons that completed outerwear and millinery.
Every button we make is patterned directly from original examples found on extant Victorian garments, offering an authentic connection to the past.
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: None
Dates: 3 Tuesdays – January 19, 26, February 2, 2027
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
Registration Fee: $100
Kit: $10
Kit Description: Needles, button molds and rings, beeswax, written instructions.
Students Must Provide: Scissors, pen or pencil, several colors of pearl cotton #5 and #8 thread.
Second Camera: Optional
Intermediate Filet Crochet Lace
Instructor: Susan Lowman
Course Description: Do you know the basics of Filet Crochet (open mesh, closed mesh and lacets), but not some of the different ways to make more complex Filet Crochet Lace projects? Filet Crochet Lace is a great technique for making doilies, centerpieces, tablecloths, insertions, edgings and much more. In this 4-hour class, you’ll add to your basic Filet Crochet knowledge, learning increases, decreases, diagonal stitches, shadow filet mesh and more to create more complex Filet Crochet Lace projects.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Must know basic crochet stitches and be comfortable working with crochet threads, along with small steel crochet hooks. Must know how to read and follow written crochet patterns and/or symbol crochet charts. Should have some experience with basic filet crochet.
Dates: 2 Tuesdays – January 19, 26, 2027
Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am PST
Registration Fee: $60
Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)
Second Camera: Recommended
Introduction to Sprang
Instructor: Carol James
Course Description: This class will teach you the basic skills of sprang. We will cover the basic interlinking stitch, several finishing techniques, how to warp your loom for flat warp and also for circular warp, as well as a variety of surface design techniques.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisite: None
Dates: 6 Wednesdays – February 24; March 3, 17, 24, 31; April 7, 2027
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm PST/PDT
Registration Fee: $120
Kit: Options – Full Kit $95; Partial Kits $45 to $70
Kit Description: The kit is required and includes a frame, book and DVD. The frame will come pre-warped for the first project and includes yarn for the second project. If you already own the book “Sprang Unsprung” and/or DVD “Introduction to Sprang,” note there are options to purchase only the items you need. Also please indicate on the registration form whether you would like a right-handed or left-handed frame.
Students Must Provide: Pencil, paper, and scissors. Yarn for the first two projects is provided in the kit, but yarn for later sessions must be supplied by the student. It will be discussed in the first class.
Second Camera: Not required
Sprang Lace Techniques
Instructor: Carol James
Course Description: We will explore several lace stitches, including edge stitches, ropes, and doubles. Class time will be divided between theory and supported practice. Pattern reading and pattern writing will be presented as tools to facilitate planning and to record structures. Carol will share with you the method for writing sprang lace patterns that she developed, indicating the position of each thread. We will work from these patterns to create some basic designs. We will also look at images of historic sprang lace pieces and Carol will take you through the steps she would follow to derive the pattern for these pieces.
Level: Continuing Beginner, Intermediate
Prerequisite: Must be comfortable with warping the frame and making basic sprang stitches.
Dates: 3 Wednesdays – April 28; May 5, 12, 2027
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm PDT
Registration Fee: $75
Students Must Provide: Pencil, paper, and scissors, yarn. A sprang frame from previous experience is required.
Second Camera: Not required
A 12-Hour Introduction to Bobbin Lace
Course Description: An introduction to bobbin lace basics from winding the bobbins and learning the basic movements to making 4 samples, each building on the skills already learned. Each session is preceded by a 45-60 minute practice session that covers 2-camera setup, kit contents and how to wind bobbins before class.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Registration Fee: $85
Curriculum: The curriculum is included with the kit. If you already have supplies and are not purchasing a kit, please add the curriculum to your cart so we can ship and track it correctly.
Kit: $99 All supplies are available in a kit OR you can use your own bobbin lace tools.
Note: If current sessions are full, please fill out this form.
Dates: 4 Saturdays – October 3, 17, 24, 31, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT
Practice for This Session: Saturday, September 26; 12:30 pm -1:30 pm PDT
Instructor: Kim Davis
Assistant: Joan Brash
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Dates: 4 Sundays – November 8, 15, 22; December 6, 2026
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm PST
Practice for This Session: Sunday, November 1; 9:30 am -10:30 am PST
Instructor: Karen Thompson
Assistant: Linda Kay Benning
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Dates: 4 Wednesdays – November 11, 18; December 2, 9, 2026
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
Practice for This Session: Wednesday, November 4; 9:00 am -10:00 am PST
Instructor: Karen Thompson
Assistant: Linda Kay Benning
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If you have the time but not the funds to pursue the heritage art of making your own lace with bobbins and threads, here is a solution.
The Lace Museum is offering one scholarship for supplies per Introduction to Bobbin Lace online workshop session. To apply for the scholarship, write a paragraph (250 words or less) explaining why you would like to learn this skill and email it to lacemuseum@gmail.com.
Internet connection is necessary for the workshop.
Skill Building Workshops for Bobbin Lace
Instructor: Karen Thompson
Course Description: A 2-session Just Beyond the Basics class and eight or more mostly 1-session Skill Building classes in Torchon lace follow the 12-Hour Introduction to Bobbin Lace. Different skills or different combinations of techniques are taught in each class.
Level: Continuing Beginner
Detailed Descriptions and Currently Available Dates: Click Here