Bobbin Lace Teachers Are Hard To Find

Today, the newcomer who is beginning bobbin lace and is looking for a teacher to help her will find that it is almost imposible to find one who knows how to make the lace and is willing to teach this ancient art.

Some people call bobbin lace a “lost art” because apparently hardly noone is interested in learning to make the lace and many young people are not interested.

Finding bobbin lace teachers

Bobbin lacemakers are scarse, but in some places in the world, you can find a number of lacemakers living in a single community. In Puerto Rico for example, Moca is a town which is known as “the capital of Mundillo”, or “the Capital of Bobbin Lace”.

This is so due to the fact that this is the only town where most of the lacemakers are found. There is a Museum called The bobbin lace Museum (El Museo del Mundillo) located in Moca in the Northwest part of Puerto Rico.

There they offer bobbin lace classes on Saturdays to whoever is interested and many young girls take the courses to learn. Some historians say that Bobbin Lace was brought to Puerto Rico by the Spaniards in the epoch of colonization and these Spanish lacemakers taught our great great grandmothers and this is the way it was passed on to new generations. Nowadays there are many lacemakers throughout the island who make lace.