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Elena Kanagy-Loux
United States
Приєднався 15 сер 2020
Hello there!
I’m Elena Kanagy-Loux, a textile artist and historian who has dedicated nearly a decade of my life to the study of handmade lace. I am also the founder of Brooklyn Lace Guild, and have my MA in Costume Studies from NYU.
When I was starting out, it was difficult for me to find instructors and reliable resources in lace, so my goal is to make information about lace history and lace making more accessible to the general public. I hope that this channel will be a useful tool to aid in lace identification, historical accuracy, tips and tricks in making different kinds of lace, and more! To me, lace is one of the most exquisite art forms in existence (okay, THE most exquisite) and is long overdue for recognition within the art historical canon and beyond.
I do my best to answer any and all questions that I can, so feel free to email me with lace-related queries. Thank you for watching, and enjoy!
You can also find me on Instagram: @erenanaomi
I’m Elena Kanagy-Loux, a textile artist and historian who has dedicated nearly a decade of my life to the study of handmade lace. I am also the founder of Brooklyn Lace Guild, and have my MA in Costume Studies from NYU.
When I was starting out, it was difficult for me to find instructors and reliable resources in lace, so my goal is to make information about lace history and lace making more accessible to the general public. I hope that this channel will be a useful tool to aid in lace identification, historical accuracy, tips and tricks in making different kinds of lace, and more! To me, lace is one of the most exquisite art forms in existence (okay, THE most exquisite) and is long overdue for recognition within the art historical canon and beyond.
I do my best to answer any and all questions that I can, so feel free to email me with lace-related queries. Thank you for watching, and enjoy!
You can also find me on Instagram: @erenanaomi
How I Learned to Make Lace
A brief introduction to me and my lace obsession! Where I learned to make bobbin lace, the most important piece of lace I've ever made, and some goals for the future. I made this video for Create Day as part of London Craft Week 2020.
Want to try your hand at bobbin lace? Here are some resources!
The Lace Museum has online classes in all different kinds of lace:
thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html
I teach bobbin lace online and in person at the Textile Arts Center:
textileartscenter.com/
Snowgoose lace sells affordable kits:
www.snowgooselace.com/product-category/bobbin-lace/beginner-bobbin-lace-kits/
And here's a video on how to DIY affordable tools for lace:
ua-cam.com/video/yN8uVEHwXdE/v-deo.html
Want to try your hand at bobbin lace? Here are some resources!
The Lace Museum has online classes in all different kinds of lace:
thelacemuseum.org/workshops.html
I teach bobbin lace online and in person at the Textile Arts Center:
textileartscenter.com/
Snowgoose lace sells affordable kits:
www.snowgooselace.com/product-category/bobbin-lace/beginner-bobbin-lace-kits/
And here's a video on how to DIY affordable tools for lace:
ua-cam.com/video/yN8uVEHwXdE/v-deo.html
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So beautiful. Thank you for your scholarship.
You have such a beautiful collection of bobbins. It's inspired me to get mine out of the closet.
Girl, you are awesome. 👏 May Jesus continue to provide you with that creative and inquisitive mind. 🩷
Also in NYC! I'm hooked and really wanna learn but don't know where to start
Kudos to you for keeping alive old ways of doing things like lace making. Beautiful.
Thank you for putting this up on you and the others who have because back in the 80s I only need one woman who knew how to do Bob and lace and she was not interested in sharing her knowledge and I had to guess at just by observation on how she was doing it and while I made one or two things that I now realize were of the bobbin lace variety it wasn't really because I had no bobbins to make it with. I refer to it as weaving because that's basically how I treated it like the way a weaver does because I had no idea how to stick the pins or how to make the threads attached to the pins so I was guessing and that's pretty much what I was doing based on the bits of observation that she didn't notice that I was looking over her shoulder at the time like I said she was not interested in teaching anybody anything she considered a form of that she was the only one to be a lace maker,the least that I used to make was more like what my grandmother used to make via crocheting which is a totally different way of doing things although I think my grandmother may have done Bob and Lace I don't think she taught my mother any of it because my mother was the kind of person who you couldn't teach anything to.
Where is your email? Not instagram, an actual email. I'd like to ask you a few questions. Plus request a video.
i would love to learn how to do this, i might have to take your class sometime
Can anyone suggest a shop or web site in the US ? Thank you!!
Very interesting, thanks.
I was first introduced to bobbin lace when I was a child through demonstrations at a reenactment festival. I was immediately captivated and anticipated visiting that particular booth year after year till I went away for college. That was 40 years ago, during which time I had not encountered bobbin lace making again… until recently that is. Thanks to UA-cam and content creators like yourself, I have been reintroduced to bobbin laced and inspired to learn the technique. I have been fiddling around for a couple of weeks now and am loving every minute of it. Once my second set of bobbins arrives in the mail, I plan to attempt a genuine “project”. I have been in love with your RBG “25” collar (and yourself) since the first time I saw it in the 500 Years of Lace interview. I have looked it up several times to admire it. I would love to see it in person some day.
you rock.
Hello Elena. I love this video and I want to ask you something. Where can I buy a pillow like yours? It seems great to me. I already have similar ones, but not exactly like this. Thank you for your answer from a bobbin lace maker from Spain.
Hello! Thank you for the kind words. I bought the pillow in Le Puy en Velay, France from the lacemaker Didier Barry (he also makes pillows). His website is lacebook.net
. . . Nothing two years later? How sad, I would love to watch videos from another creator on this subject.
pun’s right out the gate
This is so amazing!!
I just thrifted a Battenburg lace pattern from the 80's and oh boy am I surprised by how little information there is online about this technique.
I wish I loved anything as much as this chick loves lace.
Your 25 collar is beautiful - done so evenly too.
I love everything about this video! The story of your journey and amazing dedication to your craft, the fabulous lace collar you made for the incomparable RBG, to learning that the craft is growing.
How do you possibly do that. There's so many pins and it looks confusing.❤
Excellent work love!🎉❤
More videos please
Wow! What a beautiful craft to fall into. This is absolutely incredible art.
Yay!!!
it is so primitive compsre to thisvologodsky lace www.google.com/search?q=vologodsky+lace&client=firefox-b-e&sca_esv=80979d232755066a&sca_upv=1&udm=2&biw=1696&bih=765&sxsrf=ACQVn08wAvitpCqEAgq-wsAvHEVjQprEMg%3A1712517364457&ei=9PASZrm4G5uYptQPxoGPiA4&oq=&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAaAhgBIgAqAggAMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDMgoQIxjqAhgnGIsDSJYfUIQPWIQPcAJ4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBAcgBAPgBAZgCAaACCKgCCpgDCIgGAZIHATGgBwA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
The video you made with Mister Rajiv was the final push I needed to start my own attempts at lacemaking. Thank you. I've found some vintage bobbins and my lace roller pillow is on it's way from England. I took up sewing just before lockdown hit - slowly creating my wardrobe from vintage patterns that stretch across the last century. My thinking is any janky thing I'm able to come up with on the pillow will be more interesting than the mass-produced acrylic lace that can be found at the store. Is the guild open to Canadian members or has everything gone back to in-person? - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
There is a wonderful International Lace Camp held for a week in July in Gore Bay on Manitoulin Is., Ontario, Canada. All levels of lace makers are welcome in this group.
SUPER ESPECTACULAR. FELICITACIONES.
Incredible journey, how wonderful and inspiring.
00:03 " its hard to pin point" lol i see what you did there
I want to learn this so bad
ua-cam.com/video/3s8LYo8yQ1M/v-deo.htmlsi=J-T2AY9goJ1DT-i5
Watch this video
I am from India and very keen on learning Bobbin lace making .Seeing your determination and eventually acquiring the skill ,I am inspired to learn the same .
Where did you get your pretty lace pillow?
Do you have a link to your graduate thesis? I would love to read it if it's available.
Thank you !
I started te teach masel' bobbin lace fae a kit & books & the internet in late 2020 🤔 I was meant te be continuin' te learn Irish crochet, but I snap't the heid aff ma 0.50mm Clover Japan lace hook mid stitch & it was oot of stock everywhere durin' the lockdoons. So, I thought "let's see whit Torchon Lace is, that name that's describes ma Lolita brand knee high socks?" & after a lot of time on a search engine,,,I found info on bobbin lace making & look't up some second hand books te get 😺 then became awfy determined te make ma own torchon lace. This year, I've come on in leaps & bounds(but caused masel' Crafters Wrist), since gettin' UA-camr J'aime la dentelle's first beginners bobbin lace book. It was brilliant, cause it teaches via less bobbins, an' is awfy visual & very clear patterns & instructions(although only available in Japanese). At present, the Crafters Wrist is startin' te return(so, ma rest time is now crochet time), but I've got 19.5cm done of a 57cm length of lace, te become a garter fir the top of knee high socks.
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Nice!!! 😊
I have always wanted to learn bobbin lace making. I wonder which pillow is best for beginners.
My respect for laces jus sky rocketed
Thank you for promoting and educating through this channel. I learned years ago in Puerto Rico where I actually live. Throughout years and decades it has been taught. However, there are less people lacing. It is our interest of continuing to promote it here through a group that is known Internationally and the governor just signed a new law that it takes effect in May 2023 where every year it will be the lace day to celebrate. There will be exhibition, demonstration, lace materials, lace to sell and etc. I was a member of the Boriquen Lacers association but unfortunately it disappeared due to former members passing. Now, we have "Lideres Puertorriquenos de Puerto Rico". Lace is known here as "Encajes de Mundillo".
Amazing.
This video is so great. I hope you plan more videos for your channel!
You are a true artist. Thank you for keeping this art alive. 💘
I had the happy accident about 15 years ago of stumbling upon a neighbor who trained in lacemaking while living in the Midlands of England. Of course I took her up on the offer to teach me lacemaking.
How cool! Real-world magic. I've always wanted to see this done.
I just started learning how to make bobbin lace, since it is a traditional way how to make lace in Malta and Gozo. Only a few people know how to make lace. If you're in Europe, you should definitely visit Malta and Gozo to view their lace. In Maltese it's called "Bizzilla". There's also a book: "Maltese lace, mystery and history".
How fun to find you again through a youtube search for Idrija lace. I am in Gorizia for a few days and drove to Idrija today. Nice film.
Beautiful , but the plethora of bobbins is confusing to me so ill just be an admiring spectator