Triennial Lace Awards

Australian Lace hold the Tirennial Lace Awards to encourage lacemakers to create amazing designs based on a theme.  The 2009 award was themed Rainforest and there were eight categories.  The images above are only some of the amazing creations.

Britt Fiarchild created the beautiful flowing bodice which she wore with pride to the AGM.  The second image shows the detail of this design.

Olwyn Scott created the amazing pictorial frames, one of which is pictured. 

It would be great to see such amazing works featured on the Lace Guilds Website.  These images were scanned from the Guilds journal so apologies for the poorer quality.

Rope Interlace

I found this image in the 2008 Australian Lace Journal.  Christine Wareham-Norfolk used 3 metres of decorative rope and gradually subdivided it to grow into a multi-stranded wall hanging.  One piece of rope is gradually divided into 288 individual threads.

Christine used coir door mats as her pillow and nails as her pins.  Torchon stiches were used to make the piece in a free style.  This helped to create such a unique organic form.

Congratulations Christine for turning an idea formed with friends over a bottle of wine into this stunning finished piece.