the lace beeA LIFE IN LACEThe Lace Bee · Watch and learn
Want to watch someone make lace? Here are 47 channels to explore, from first stitches and affordable equipment to specialist techniques, craft history and the gentle sound of bobbins.
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Equipment demonstration
Archive includes preparing and winding bobbins, linked by Lacemakers of Puget Sound as a learning resource.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace preparation
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Hobbyist demonstrations and beginner techniques
A hobbyist sharing basic stitches and designs, with a particular enthusiasm for lace bookmarks.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; bookmarks
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ASMR and relaxation
Real-time lacemaking and bobbin sounds for relaxation. The creator explicitly states that these videos are not instructional.
Lace styles: Bucks Point examples; other styles not confirmed
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Tutorials and projects
Explains the mechanics behind working methods, alongside practical demonstrations and sampler projects.
Lace styles: Modern Milanese; Withof-influenced techniques; Torchon
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Tutorials and historical crafts
Lacemaking and equipment instruction within a broader historical craft channel that also features tatting.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; historical lace context
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Tutorials and equipment
Cloth stitch trails, material preparation and affordable alternatives to specialist equipment, including cork-board pillows and clothes-peg bobbins.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; tallies
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Tutorials and projects
Short technique lessons and longer projects covering corners, tallies, starts and finishing with a brode.
Lace styles: Torchon; general bobbin lace
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Tutorials and school features
School-led techniques and projects, including leaf, violet and fish patterns with supporting resources.
Lace styles: Idrija tape lace
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Tutorials and craft podcast
Ellie’s mixed craft channel includes beginner equipment, winding and foundational stitch lessons.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace
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History, research and making inspiration
Textile artist and historian sharing handmade lace research, craft history and insights into lacemakers’ work.
Lace styles: Multiple styles; historical and contemporary handmade lace
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Tutorials and project courses
Designer-led fan and garment projects, with demonstrations of adding or removing pairs in shaped edgings.
Lace styles: Bobbin lace; fan and edging projects
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Making features and equipment
Lace teacher sharing craft-related material, including antique bobbins from Pamela Nottingham’s collection.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace; historical equipment
Tutorials within mixed crafts
Annick Maubert’s demonstrations cover equipment, winding, setting up patterns, basic work, borders and beads.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; beaded lace
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Tutorials, projects and live sessions
Beginner series, bookmarks, roseground, leaf tallies, jewellery and seasonal decorations.
Lace styles: Torchon; contemporary bobbin lace
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Technique tutorials
Honiton-focused channel with a trolley-netting lesson, plus other arts and crafts.
Lace styles: Honiton
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Small tutorial archive
Two-video archive containing a dove-pattern demonstration and short teaser.
Lace styles: Idrija-inspired bobbin lace
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Short technique demonstrations
Small archive with practical bobbin-handling tips, including the head knot used to control thread.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace
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Tutorials and patterns
Australian designer demonstrating decorative grounds, spiders and techniques that accompany her patterns.
Lace styles: Torchon
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Tutorial archive and equipment
Basic stitch demonstrations plus instructions for constructing bolster and cookie pillows.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace
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Lace centre features and educational context
Official channel of the Bruges lace knowledge centre, useful for craft context and discovering its teaching activities.
Lace styles: Belgian lace; multiple styles
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Tutorials and live sessions
Traditional and modern handwork, beginner instruction and practical sessions exploring working with one hand.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace
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Tutorials and projects
Lacemaking mixed with scrapbooking, including lettering, bracelets, oval tallies and projects across several instalments.
Lace styles: Torchon; Binche; decorative grounds
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Talks, interviews and teacher development
Recorded sessions on teaching, mentoring and experienced makers’ lives, including the A Life in Lace interview series.
Lace styles: Multiple styles; teaching practice
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Curated playlist archive
Organises existing lacemaking videos into topic playlists, offering a historical directory rather than a single teacher’s lesson series.
Lace styles: Multiple lace types; curated video collections
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Tutorials and projects
Botanical patterns, jewellery and beginner projects featuring monstera leaves, pumpkins and other nature-inspired designs.
Lace styles: Tape lace; contemporary botanical lace
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Tutorials and projects
Free initiation lessons and modern designs, with accompanying patterns and longer animal projects.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace; contemporary motifs
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Tutorials and projects
Beginner course, decorative grounds, jewellery and contemporary experiments, including variations worked on one pricking.
Lace styles: Torchon; contemporary; Flanders and other grounds
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Publisher tutorial collection
Nine short lessons accompany a beginners’ book, covering preparation, winding, starts, securing threads and sewings.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace
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Tutorials and projects
Beginner stitches, beads, magic threads, decorative motifs and practical project demonstrations.
Lace styles: Torchon; tape lace; Idrija-inspired projects
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Technique tutorials
Workshop companion tutorials reviewing practical methods, bobbin knots and the passée à cheval technique.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace
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Tutorials and lace-alongs
Angels, honeycomb, roseground, corners and finishing, with longer series accompanying particular designs.
Lace styles: Torchon
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Tutorials and projects
Traditional English techniques, including spangling bobbins, preparing patterns, starting methods and finishing demonstrations.
Lace styles: Bedfordshire; Bucks Point; Torchon
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Tutorials, equipment and making diary
Absolute beginners’ introduction, equipment reviews and personal making projects within a broader craft channel.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; Bucks Point
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Tutorials and projects
Equipment, winding, basic stitches, spiders and tallies, followed by bookmarks and baby booties.
Lace styles: Mundillo; basic bobbin lace
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Tutorials and projects
Mixed crafts with structured samplers, snake bookmarks, butterflies and stars worked inside rings.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; tape-style projects
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Tutorials and making sessions
Practical sampler lessons include adding pairs and working corners, alongside outdoor making videos.
Lace styles: General bobbin lace; stitch samplers
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Tutorials and projects
Basic movements, braids, flowers and leaves, plus multi-part butterflies, seahorses and seasonal projects.
Lace styles: Cantù; Italian bobbin lace
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Tutorials and projects
Extensive collection covering foundations, interpreting patterns, decorative techniques, starts and finishes.
Lace styles: Torchon; Hinojosa; guipure; Bucks Point
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Tutorials and projects
Numbered beginner tutorials include bookmark #84, spiders #187, square #219 and trying lace without specialist kit #220.
Lace styles: Beginner bobbin lace; Torchon-style projects
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Tutorials and projects
Beginner Torchon instruction and basic Brugge flower techniques from a continental lace teacher.
Lace styles: Torchon; Brugge flower
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Tutorial series
How to Make Honiton Lace starts with winding, followed by whole stitch, half stitch, pearls, roll and tie, plus a straight start.
Lace styles: Honiton
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Tutorial archive
Stitch library covering fans, diamonds, spiders, thread joins, bookmarks and sewing in ends.
Lace styles: Torchon
Tutorials and projects
Cantù techniques and projects alongside embroidery and other crafts.
Lace styles: Cantù
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Tutorials
Introductory guidance plus a publicly listed Flanders sample series covering starting and finishing.
Lace styles: Basic bobbin lace; Flanders
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Tutorials and live demonstrations
Starting and finishing edgings, narrow fans and metallic bracelets, with numbered project demonstrations.
Lace styles: Bobbin lace edgings; metallic lace
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Introductory explanation and historical crafts
Explains the basics through a personal journey making lace for an Askola folk costume.
Lace styles: Finnish folk-costume lace; basic bobbin lace
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Stitch tutorials
Practical stitch bank covering starts, finishing, fans, leaves, spiders, roseground and trails.
Lace styles: Torchon; Bucks Point ground; general techniques
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Looking for a particular technique? These collections are useful places to begin. They stay visible while you filter the channels above.
The Lace Owl · Torchon
Reference collection for Torchon stitches, accompanying the channel’s technique demonstrations.
Open playlist ↗ (opens in a new tab)Louise West · Bucks Point
Point ground, honeycomb, gimps, tallies, picots, thread repair and starting or finishing motifs.
Open playlist ↗ (opens in a new tab)The Honiton Museum · Honiton
Begins with winding a bobbin, then whole stitch, half stitch, pearls, roll and tie, plus a straight start.
Open playlist ↗ (opens in a new tab)Channel details checked 17 October 2026. Locations refer to a creator’s stated base where known, rather than birthplace. “Not confirmed” means a location has not been established. Some channels cover several crafts, while others focus on history, relaxation or archived material. Videos may be free to watch even when patterns or courses are sold separately. Availability and subtitle support can change. Links open in a new tab.