Jan Gardiner

Lacemaker

Jan first became interested in the wonderful craft of lacemaking when her son began playschool and she found that she had spare time to occupy. She joined an evening class in bobbin lacemaking in September 1983. After the first struggles, she became hooked! Jan has been an enthusiastic lacemaker ever since.

Bobbin Painter

When a bobbin on which Jan had painted a pansy won a small competition at a North Downs Lacemakers meeting, she was approached to supply hand painted bobbins to a supplier of lace equipment.

From these small beginnings, Jan has developed many different designs for bobbins, which were marketed under Lacewing Bobbins, and now under Lacewing Designs, have found their way all over the United Kingdom and abroad.

Designer and Teacher

As with the bobbins, teaching began gradually, with a few friends asking Jan to show how bobbin lace was made. These small beginnings grew through being asked to take a class for the local Adult Education Authority, passing formal teaching qualifications, Lace Guild Assessments and the City and Guild Creative Lacemaking Course. Jan has recently been teaching abroad as well as in the UK.

Jan teaches workshops in the majority of the English bobbin laces, i.e. Honiton, Torchon, Bedfordshire and Bucks Point, as well as the continental laces such as Bayeux. Needle laces are also a subject area in which Jan is happy to teach. She also likes to encourage lace makers to design their own work and is very happy to instruct groups or individuals in the design process. A full list of workshops is available..

Jan's work has been exhibited around this country and abroad and usually cause some comments, particularly her more avant garde work. Have a look at the Gallery to see photographs of some of these pieces of work.

Jan has completed a wide range of lace designs, many of which are available in patterns available from Lacewing Designs. There are always new designs being worked on in preparation to add to the list offered by Lacewing Designs.

Contact Information

You can contact us by post, telephone or via this website, details of which are provided below.  Whilst all efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, gremlins do have a habit of infiltrating even the most closely guarded sites, so please take account of this as you take your route of discovery through our humble site.  Should you have any comments regarding the ease (or otherwise) please do not hesitate to let us know and we will endeavour to incorporate these suggestions in our site design.

Telephone

+44 (0)1980 611932

FAX

+44 (0)1980 611932

Postal address

Morningside, Idmiston Rd, Porton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0LB, UK

Electronic mail

General Information: info@lacewingdesigns.co.uk
Sales: jan@lacewingdesigns.co.uk
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