Erasmus+ Programme
A special mention to our friend Marianne Stang for giving us the possibility to live the wonderful history of a little wooden stick, symbol of bobbin lace, that has been able to create innovation in the traditional handcraft sector. And
Our sixth transnational meeting was held online, same as the two previous ones, due to the impossibility to get together because of the pandemic of the COVID-19 which is affecting the whole world. This has been the last international meeting
We are now entering the final part of the project. This time it was our French partners who organised a course for us on the Cluny de Brioude lace, from 20th to 26th of January. Couleurs dentelle and its founders
From the 27th of November until the 1st of December 2020, the Bobbin Lacee group in Spain has been teaching the foreign participants in the project how to make one of the many different types of lace made in this
On 1 October 2020 we lost one of the most accomplished lace makers in Europe in recent years: Marianne Stang. A lace maker since 1982, she was trained as a bobbin lace teacher by the Deutscher Klöppelverband e.V. (German Lace
On the 16th of January all participants from the participating countries arrived in Prague. On the 17th of January we started our working day by listening to the interesting lecture given by Dana Mihulková about lace in Czech Republic, accompanied
Our second transnational meeting took us to the heart of the Apennines in Italy. Scanno, a small village where lace has been made for many centuries, was the host for a big group of around 50 lacemakers who were very
On the 21st of February, nine people from each of the participating countries arrived in Vienna: 3 members of the staff, 3 teachers and 3 learners. On the 22nd all participants started working hard. First, teachers and learners received a
Entities of six European countries are participating in this project: the coordinator Forum Alte Spitze (Germany) and the partners Verein Klöppeln und Textile Spitzenkunst (Austria), Couleurs Dentelle (France), Encajeras Vuelta y Cruz (Spain), Municipality of Scanno (Italy) and Ceska Palicka