Arachne - The world-wide Lacemakers website and mailing list.
The Lace Guild
Candian Lacemaker Gazette - journal of the Canadian Lace Guild
International Old Lacers (IOLI)
OIDFA - l'Organisation International de la Dentelle Fuseau l'Aiguille
(The International Bobbin and Needlelace Organisation)
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24hour UK Museums
Avital's Fibre Page - from Israel
Bev Walker's Canadian Wildflower Bobbins
Bjarne Drews' Danish Lace site
Caratex Stamps - Derry Whyte's Database of Textile - related Stamps
Carolina's Lace Site (Barcelona)
CD2000 - A Lace Project for the Millenium
The Costume Page - Links to many other such sites
Fiore e tombolo - Fiorenza's Lacemaking site from Italy
Gloria Valli - Worldwide listing of Lace Events
JoAnne's square bobbins - saves spangling!
Kenmare Lace - The History of Kenmare Lace
Kenn Van-Dieren - All about lace bobbins!
Kreuzen-Drehen - Eva Baumgartner's lace site [in German] but worth looking at
La Encajera - Spanish Lace magazine
The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, California
Lara the Lacemaker's Tangled Web - includes illustrated instructions for making a Lace Pillow
Lois Miller's website - with instructions for a Lego bobbin winder!
Lorelei Halley's Lace pages - includes several pages about lace identification.
Lori Howe's "Lace Fairy" - Lace pages, Virtual Lace Museum, Lace Graphics and more!
Old Lace books - scanned & ready to read on your monitor!
Retournac Lace Manufactures' Museum
Westhope College, Shropshire - for day classes and weekends covering all sorts of needlecrafts,etc.-
Mid-Wales Links:-
art71 - Home of our new ISP, Mike!
Llanidloes - the lst town on the River Severn
Bishop's Castle, South Shropshire - just across the border from us and home to the Castle Hotel, one of our favourite watering holes :)
Gregynog Hall - an outpost of the University of Wales. A Victorian building, resembling a black & white timbered mansion, but built completely
of concrete! The superb gardens are open to the public all year round, free of charge. A Music festival of world renown is held there every July.
Lake Vyrnwy - Great place to visit and take your bikes!
Gigrin Farm - Red Kite Feeding Station
Centre for Alternative Technology
Festival of the Countryside - events and places to visit in Mid-wales.
Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust
Other Sites of Interest:-
Tools With a Mission - sending tools around the world to help people help themselves.
Royal National Lifeboat Insitution (R.N.L.I.) - funded entirely by voluntary donations.
Macmillan Nurses - one of the charities supported by the 1999 Ad Hoc Lace Day
Sustrans - home of the National Cycle Network
Naturescape - Wild Flower Seeds
The Owl Pages - we have Tawny & Barn Owls in the trees and fields near us.
"Rainbow's End" - Friends of mine from FCO days in Khartoum have settled/retired to the Dominican Republic and are welcoming paying guests.
The beach pictures alone look wonderful!
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Maybe you'd like to look at my Family History - Research Links as well!
Please contact me if you find any of these links are not working
This page created 10 August 1998
& amended/updated 20:33 14/10/2007