Debby Ricami is an Italian contemporary lace maker and educator who teaches online lessons on YouTube and other platforms for millions of people. her lace work is rooted in early Italian Lace making, she takes a simplistic and elegant approach to making lace in the most traditional ways. Her work references Italian punto sfilato lace.

Flora Viale is an Italo-Amarican lace artist from the Island of Burano in Venice. Her Sacred Fragments series is an exploration of the history of lace making and how historic crafts can function as relics. this work is an example of this exploration, it shows many different forms of Italian lace making displayed on a plinth as a relic.

Debby Ricami, “Pair of Bellora pure linen towels”, 2022, Lace on Linen

Flora Viale, “Sacred Fragments”, 2013, Lace, Lace Museum of Burano

Elena Kanagy-Loux, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Collar”, 2015

Elena Kanagy-Loux is a Brooklyn Based lace maker and instructor. She is a historian and Artist who works to bring traditional lace making more accessible to everyone. This collar was commissioned to celebrate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 25th year as a supreme justice and was created over more than 250 hours.

Ágnes Herczeg, “untitled”, Lace and Wood, 2018

Pierre Fouché, “The Kiss”, Crochet cotton, 2007. Iziko South African National Gallery.

Ágnes Herczeg is a Hungarian artist who works with late and small branched to create these beautiful works depicting a large verity of genre scenes mainly of daily life. Her goal in designing her compositions is to not provide solely visual content but focus on structural elements. she dyes her works after doing the lace elements.

Pierre Fouché is a South African lace and textile artist who uses tradition lace making and embroidery to create these stunning images focusing on the gaze, representation and figurature routed in the history of photography. this work is an example of a crocheted lace work based on a photograph that aims to envoke strong memories will removing it from the familiarity of photography