XIV Mostra d’Arts Manuals, Manacor, Majorca (Levant, Balearic Islands)
Organizers: CEPA Llevant – Centre d’Adults de Manacor
Adjuntament de Manacor
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 13:30
Place: A càrrec del cepa llevant. Passeig de na Camel·la.
Website: http://tinyurl.com/hxvl9ky
Information: Ajuntament – 971 84 91 00
The Mostra d’Arts Manuals de Brodadores i Randeres is part of the 2016 Fires i Festes Primavera in Manacor, which runs from May 27 to June 9, 2016.
X Encuentro de Bolillos “Villa de Alagón” (Ribera Alta del Ebro, Zaragoza, Aragón)
Organizers: la Asociación de Vecinos “Allabone” de Alagón
Collaborators: Exemo. Ayuntamiento de Alagón, Comarca Ribera Alta de Ebro, Bantierra, “la Caixa”, Agrotoro
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2015
Time: Open to the general public from 11:00 to 13:00
Place: Sala Alaun, c/Carrera de Caballos
Website: http://tinyurl.com/zzy9v4z Information: Ana Carmen Serrano 609493544, acserranola@gmail.com
Very little information available this year.
VI Xuntanza de Palilleiras e Labores Artesanais, Vila de Sarria (Lugo, Galicia)
Organizers: Asociación de Palilleiras “Camiño de Santiago” de Sarria
Collaborators: Concello de Sarria
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2016
Time: see Agenda
Place: Pavillón “Jose Mario Gonzalez” (O Chanto)
Website: http://tinyurl.com/zb99lr4
Information and Registration: Ma Pilar Rodríguez Díaz, 982530654/657394037
Conchita Díaz Vázquez, 686138122
Ma Jesús Varela Real, 982531935/676408748
Registrations must be received by May 18, 2016.
Agenda:
10:00 to 11:00 Reception and presentation
11:00 to 13:300 Lacemaking
14:00 to 16:00 Lunch
16:00 to 19:00 Lacemaking
Events will include vendors and exhibitions. Raffle gifts have been donated by a number of businesses.
Spitzenfrühling in Chorin (Barnim, Brandenburg)
Sponsor: FG Klöppeln des Eberswalder Kulturbundes e.V.
die Handarbeits- und Kreativgruppe Chorin
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2016
Hours: Saturday, opening at 20:00 AM
Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00
Location: various sites in Chorin
Website: http://tinyurl.com/jca82lrInformation and Registration: spitzenfruehling-chorin@web.de
There is an extensive list of exhibitions in lace and other needlework at http://tinyurl.com/zhvjqrp. These include exhibition on both historic and contemporary lace.
A massive work has been making the rounds of various sites in Germany for the past few years – a now 76 square meter ‘quilt’ formed of lace squares. The Guiness book of World Records has been contacted about this. It will be on disply in the Hotel Haus Chorin from May 21 to June 5, 2016.
Spitzen-Viefalt 2015, Brokeloh (Landesbergen district Nienburg/Weser, Lower Saxony)
Theme: “Weiß in Weiß, Nur zur HochZeit?” (White on White, only for weddings?)
Sponsor: Deutsche Spitzengilde e. V.
Geschäftstelle, Markwaldstraße 19, D 63073 Offenbach
This is their annual general meeting, and 2016 is their 30th anniversary.
Dates: Saturday and Sunday, May 28-29, 2016
Hours: Saturday, 10:00 to 18:00, Sunday, 10:00 to 16:00
Location: Various places in 31628 Landesbergen, Ortsteil Brokeloh/Niedersachsen http://tinyurl.com/zzrhwyz
Website: http://www.spitzengilde.de/ there’s a pulldown menu under Spitzen-Viefalt
Also see http://tinyurl.com/jajotka
Information and Registration: Birgit Sarzio, 05485-965397, sarzio.spitzengilde@gmail.com
Flyers: spitzengilde_anmeldung_festabend_bickbeernhof
spitzengilde_anmeldung_festabend_bickbeernhof
There is a contest, “Hochzeit” (Wedding)
Agenda:
Saturday, March 28, 2016
9:00 Exhibition opening (Alte Schule Brokeloh”
10:00 Opening of exhibitions and sales
10:30 Start of workshops
11:00 Walking tour of Brokeloh
19:00 Festive evening at the Bickbeernhof Brokeloher
Sunday, March 29, 2016
10: Opening of the exhibitions and sales
10:300 Workshops
14:00 Walking tour of Brokeloh
15:30 Finale
Workshops – please register in advance. I believe most registrations are handled directly by the teachers.
Events and Exhibitions:
Competition exhibition
Christa Kewel, “Wedding Customs & Traditions as they used to be”
Margarete Schrader “Mit und ohne Spitze – Handarbeiten auf einer Brokeloher Diele”, Nicht nur für die Herren: „Spitze – für Treckerliebhaber / Brokeloher Oldtimertrecker“
Phone booth – Lace, also in the Brokeloher phone booth (a historic landmark, very small, but used for small exhibitions)
Adina Sternemann/Marie-Luise Prinzhorn, “Modern lace and clothing”
Klöppelgruppe des Heimatvereins Achim: „Flora und Fauna in Spitze“
Demonstration of several cutting-edge lace techniques
Exhibitors, Clubs and Suppliers:
A list of participants can be found at http://tinyurl.com/pxwkjnf.
33 Rencontre VSS/FDS à Beil/Bienne (Canton of Bern, Switzerland)
Organizers: VSS Vereinigung Schweizerischer Spitzenmacherinnen
FDS Fédération des Dentellières Suisses
Date: Saturday, May 28, 2016
Place: Palais des Congrès
Rue centrale 602, 2502 Bienne
Time: See Agenda
Website: http://tinyurl.com/jnhlfw4 – look under ‘Activities/Rencontre FDS’.
Information and fees: info@vss-fds.ch, http://tinyurl.com/zoz5yan
Agenda:
8:30 Registration – Schloss: foyer de ‘Aula Magna
8:30 to 11:00 Welcome, coffee and croissants
9:00 Opening of exhibitions – Schloss Aula Magna, Salles Léon Michaud, La Forge, Centre Les Ailzés
9:00 Exhibition openings
Contest FDS 2016 “une forme – ma dentelle”
Contest FDS 2016 “Maison” (for children)
Training course instructor’s work
Work done during the FDS course
Czech lace from a private collectionand the FDS lace archives http://tinyurl.com/h3bt63u
Lace from the regions of Bern and Biel
– “cog in a watch”
– “Field of flowers”
9:00 Opening of the Vendor Hall
10:30 Workshops 1 and 2 (1st stage)
award presentations for the two contests.
14:00 Workshops 1 and 2 (1st stage)
meet lace instructors giving lessons to children
17:00 Exhibition close
17:00 Vendor room close
Suppliers:
NYC Lace Guild First Meeting
Date: Thursday, May 26, 2016
Time: 6:00 to 9:00
Place: Textile Arts Center’s Brooklyn studio
505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Website: http://tinyurl.com/zm9usea
Information: nyclaceguild@gmail.com
This is a new IOLI charter group formed by textile artists Kaelyn Garcia and Elena Kanagy-Loux. The group will give a beginning bobbinlace class on July 26-27, 2016, 6:30 to 9:30 PM http://tinyurl.com/h9stu8a, and Elena will give a talk at the TAC’s Manhattan Studio (26th W. 8th St) on Tuesday, June 21 at 6:30 PM.
It is exciting to see this group formed in New York City!
Klöppeln AKTIV – im Schönseer Landmuck (Schwandorf, Bavaria)
Organizer: Die Stadt Schönsee
Date: May 23-29, 2016
Place: Schule Schönsee
Time: See brochure for times.
Website: http://tinyurl.com/h6dmf7j
Information: 09674/317, touristinfo@schoenseer-land.de
There are 6 courses offered this year. Apologies for the late notice.
Workshops (see brochure for times):
Course 1: Invisible beginning and endings in bobbinlace, Frau Wolter-Kampmann
Course 2: From thread to surface, Frau Gießendörfer
Course 3: Composition in Glas / Natural stone and Lace, Frau Hovadová
Course 4: Traditional Elements of Schönseer Lace in contemporary applications, Frau Lehner
Two other courses are held in April and October.
20a Trobada de Puntaires, Vilanova de Bellpuig (Lleida, Catalonia)
Organizers: l’Associació de Dones l’Anju
Ajuntament de Vilanova de Bellpuig
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2016
Time: Begins at 10:00
Place: el Poliesportiu
Website: http://tinyurl.com/zrybmqq
Information: Ajuntament – 973 32 40 00
Virtually no details on the Trobada, but it is part of the 15th ComInArt (Mostra de Comerç, Indústria i Artesania) festival in Vilanova de Bellpuig. Held every year on the 4th Sunday in May. About 300 lacemakers attend.
XXII Trobada de Puntaires, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia)
Organizers: Puntaires de l’Associació de Veïns La Unió
Collaborators: Ajuntament de Sant Boi de Llobregat
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2016
Time: Starts at 10:30
Place: Rambla Rafael Casanova
Website: http://tinyurl.com/gv7ojp9
Information: Ajuntament – 93 635 12 00
This is part of the Festa Major in Sant Boi de Llobregat, which runs May 19-22, 2016
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