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Christmas closing.
Close 17th December, open 5th January.
Hope you all have a good lacy Christmas. Vivienne and Iain 🎄
Laminated Patterns
Do I need to stick my pattern onto card? Cover it with matt film then prick it?

NO! you can have your pattern as a Matt Laminate. Ready to prick. When you are very experienced, as I am and many of my customer are, you can not bother to prick it. It is up to you. If you have a laminate which has say 3 bookmarks on it you just cut up your laminate. Leaving a bit of a border round each as you do with patterns on pricking card. And yes you can use the pricking again.
Most Laminates are £5.75.
You of course get the full paper pattern as well.
It’s changed my lace making life! 

 
WE NOW DO A STARTER KIT WE CAN SEND ABROAD BUT WITHOUT A PILLOW. YOU SAVE ON A HUGE POSTAGE BUT GET THE BENEFITS OF OUR KIT. MOST COUNTRIES YOU CAN BUY A PILLOW LOCALLY OR MAY BE A FRIEND/ FAMILY MEMBER HAS A SPARE PILLOW. WHEN YOU ORDER WE WILL SEND AN INVOICE FOR YOUR COUNTRY’S POSTAGE.

Presencia

I believe that Finca thread from Presencia is sadly finished. So I am going to also sell Chinois Egyptian cotton. The larger items, like Table cloths, will have only Chinois so there is no danger of you running out. Most of my patterns only take one reel of thread so while I have Finca I will give you that unless you prefer the Chinois which is Egyptian as is Finca. In many of the thicknesses I have a fair stock but the Finca 30 and 40 in white I am keeping for my kits. It is sad. I stayed with the original Presencia family in Spain who set the company up. They were lovely, Especially the sales manager.  When they sold up they thought it would continue. But now from my information it is finished.

Stockists of Fil Au Chinois

TEL: 01634 221710  10am to 6pm. If I am here I will be happy to help you. If its an answering machine leave a message and I will get back to you ASP . 

We have a minimum  order of £7.00 and a minimum postage of £3.85 . Our site has SECURE payments

How difficult is this pattern?

We now have an image that shows the degree of difficulty for each pattern so you can make your pattern choices with confidence.

In the details for each pattern you will see one of these choices.

        

The more bobbins that are ticked, the more complex the pattern.

BUT REMEMBER MOST OF YOU HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE THAN YOU THINK.

Get the pillow you have always fancied on 3 interest free payments.

Travel Pillow

Tablecloth Pillow

Tablecloth Pillow

Have a look at all our pillows on our Pillows page.

Have a little fun!

I thought through these gloomy times we should have some fun.

So I have put together some of the many butterfly patterns I have.

The pattern is 5 pages. The number of the Butterflies is in double figures with some in various sizes. 

They all take very few bobbins, from 3 pairs. 

Have a look HERE for the details.

We are excited to share our first videos! 

You can find all our video tutorials

HERE.

In our first video, Vivienne is showing how to add in a coloured thread as she uses in many of her patterns.

There is a new pattern for you to practice this technique!

Multi Bookmarks with Colour

New!

Our second video shows how to work a spider.

Next up Vivienne uses another of her Bookmarks Patterns show how to make the flower petals. 

Another video showing Vivienne making more petals.

No more cutting a needle to fit your pricker!
New style lace pricker doesn’t need the needle cutting down to fit.

Vivienne shows how easy it is to replace the needle in our new pattern pricking tool.

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