Although this information does NOT relate to tatting, I thought it was such an exciting resource for bobbin lacemaking that I thought it need to be shared. (We are all sisters in the lacemaking world!)
This was posted in a post on ‘lace@arachne.com’ a very old list serve resource that I have been a part of for several decades. It is about a 3 year long bobbin lace project between 6 different countries. The project was named BOBBIN LACEE (“Building Opportunities with boBBins to Innovate the Network of Lace Associations Creating Education and Employment”). They have a website with ‘Learning Materials’ in English that is a treasure trove of techniques, history and collaboration.
The following is what was posted by one of the collaborators.
“Finally I can share with you the work that we have been doing during athree year long European project. I have been so busy, that I can’tremember if I ever told you about it! Sorry if I didn’t!As a resume: 6 European countries have participated in this very demanding project: Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Czech Republic and Spain. I belong to the Spanish staff team. Each country needed to create a group of 5 teachers and 35 learners to be able to teach them in their own country the type of lace they decided to choose. Each country also had to learn and to teach their learners the laces from the other 5 countries. Each country had to prepare a teaching workbook, which is now available for anybody whois interested. Do not hesitate in having a look at the material the 6 countries have prepared (you can find it in our webpage: https://bobbinlacee.eu/ under “Learning material”. It is also downloadable, if you are interested) and read the resumes of every transnational meeting. The project also included travelling to the partner countries to learn their methods, but unfortunately, we could only enjoy of half of the programmed trips. The rest had to be taught online to a very numerous group (around 60 people)., which was a great challenge, as there was no previous experience in this type of teaching. Language barriers were also enormous,as most lacemakers of the participating countries did not speak English, which was our common communicating language. So, please enjoy surfing our webpage, which will only be available untilthe end of the summer 2022. Greetings from Antje González, in Spain”