ANN ALLISON

Ann had been a bobbin lace tutor, designer and maker since 1980. She had learned the traditional laces from her mother and soon began to adapt old patterns and design new ones. Studying the City & Guilds Lace Course opened up a whole new world of design possibilities, where the strictures of traditional lacemaking could be stretched, manipulated or even broken. In recent years, Ann has experimented with and developed the use of wire in contemporary lace. Her first piece, ‘B-leaf,’ was created for The 98 Lace Group’s exhibition at The Bowes Museum in 2012, and then ‘Fleur’ was selected for the Lace 21 exhibition at Waddesdon Manor in 2014.