Needle Lace in Stainless Steel
Date and Time: Sunday, November 2, 2014  (a few spaces still available)
Cost:  $120.00, materials $10.00
Tools: Bolster or honiton style pillow recommended, $95.00 or bring your own.
This workshop introduces needle lacemaking with stainless steel wire and explains how to choose and adapt patterns to fit the medium, how to add beads or focal elements, and how to finish pieces as wearable art.

Needle Lace in Silver
Date and Time:  Sunday November 30
9:30 to 17:30
Cost:  $120.00, materials $10.00
Tools: Bolster or honiton style pillow recommended, $95.00 or bring your own.
This workshop introduces needle lacemaking with silver wire and explains how to choose and adapt patterns to fit the medium, how to add beads or focal elements, how to finish pieces as wearable art, and how to care for fine silver lace jewellery.

Instructor:  Lenka Suchanek
Venue: South Surrey Arts Centre
14601 20 Ave, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Website:  New School of Lace – Workshops
Information and Registration: laceway@gmail.com or telephone 778-288-0720

These two workshops have been added to Lenka’s Fall schedule in addition to the one already posted on LaceNews at http://tinyurl.com/kpz62yz.  The main goal of the series is to equip lacemakers with sound skills and thorough understanding of small scale needle lace techniques in different metals, so they can create their own designs and make needle lace jewellery or small scale lace art.

Lenka Suchanek is a self-taught lacemaker and lace designer. She works in the centuries old European techniques of handmade bobbin lace and needle lace, bringing them to life in pictures, sculptures and wearable art. Specializing in metal lace, she uses fine wires of copper, bronze, steel, and precious metals to create unique pieces that are traditional and modern at the same time. Lenka’s work has been exhibited around the world, and received awards and recognition for the original approach to the traditional craft.

Lenka’s work, “Memory of this World”