To plan or schedule a program for your group, email ekurella@elizabethkurella.com Nouvelle Normandy A new approach to making patchworks of lace and lacy fabrics. Students will learn the basic techniques used to make traditional 19th century lace patchworks, and will choose from a small clutch purse, pillow, or lamp shade to make in class, plus design a second project from their own vintage pieces. Mending Lace and Linens A practical class in maintaining, repairing, using, and enjoying vintage lace and linens. Techniques of repairing bobbin lace, needle lace, filet, cutwork, and other laces. Students are encouraged to bring their own damaged, worn, and torn lace to class to repair, and will also practice on pieces provided in class. NO PREVIOUS SKILLS REQUIRED. Connoissership of Antique Lace and Lacy Embroideries Informed and keen in judgment -- that's a connoisseur. The connoisseur of antique lace and lacy linens can do far more tha simply slap a label on a vintage piece -- they can read the clues in the threads to know what makes it special. This class will feature Elizabeth Kurella's unique checklists to study threads manipulations, how to date and place pieces by design and technique, and how to distinguish between intrinsic and market values. Participants will have the opportunity to handle vintage study pieces from Elizabeth Kurella's collection of seventeenth through the twentieth century pieces from Belgium, France, Italy, England, China, Russia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Participants are encouraged to bring pieces from their own collections for identification, evaluation, and analysis.