An 85-year-old lace maker has said she is "very honoured" to be made an MBE but has no plans to retire after working with lace for 60 years. Sheila Mason, from Wollaton in Nottingham, has been ...

Only few people know the thrill of seeing their artwork on a U.S. postage stamp. Trenna Ruffner, a bobbin lace maker who lives in Grosse Pointe Park, happens to be among that relatively small number ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War I are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...

Ilkeston in Derbyshire might be the historic centre of British lace-making, but, nowadays, there’s only one company flying the flag for this highly decorative textile. Cluny Lace, belonging to the ...

Making lace by hand is so time consuming few people are interested in it anymore, a Geraldine lace maker says. Lace is believed to have originated in Europe in the early 16th century and some patterns ...

Some 60 per cent of Gozitan women know how to produce traditional lace but most of them no longer do it because they think they would have to declare their income or register as part-time workers with ...