KITTY MASON MBE
Kitty is a bobbin lace maker and teacher of lace, living in Edinburgh. Her background is in traditional lacemaking, having learned on the English laces and then progressed to some of the Belgian laces. Despite her love of Binche lace she believes that lace should not always be white and flat and in her contemporary work loves to use colour, texture and some unusual materials. She has been known to make lace with used fiddle strings, telephone cabling and has even worked with leeks. Using whatever techniques will achieve the desired effect Kitty uses many traditional techniques but also freer use of the threads. She enjoys the challenge of contemporary lace. Working out how to achieve the effects and results she wants, particularly when it is to be 3D, she is conscious that the development of a contemporary piece involves a great deal of thinking and planning. One of her joys is helping students to develop their own contemporary lace working from their own inspirations and helping them to free their thinking and experiment. Scary but exciting!
![]() Stringsby Kitty Mason | ![]() Royal Crescent collarby Kitty Mason Detailed view | ![]() Whispers of passionby Kitty Mason |
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![]() Thistle doby Kitty Mason | ![]() Thistle doby Kitty Mason Detailed view | ![]() Festive treesby Kitty Mason |
![]() From Shisha to snowflakesby Kitty Mason | ![]() Devil's tunesby Kitty Mason | ![]() Binche filling hangingby Kitty Mason |
![]() If wishes were fishesby Kitty Mason A wall hanging in bobbin lace using a mixture of techniques in cotton, linen, synthetic and metallic threads on a base of knotted netting 100 x 100 Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 | ![]() The older I getby Kitty Mason Three panels in bobbin lace in a mixture of techniques and materials, including cotton, synthetic and metallic threads and meaningful objects, photographs and pictures 163 x 40 Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 | ![]() Tree earrings 1by Kitty Mason With echoes of the carriage wheels in the Springs and Wheels gallery at Stockwood Discovery Centre, these earrings for trees aim to brighten the short, bleak days of winter. Bobbin lace. Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 |
![]() Tree earrings 2by Kitty Mason With echoes of the carriage wheels in the Springs and Wheels gallery at Stockwood Discovery Centre, these earrings for trees aim to brighten the short, bleak days of winter. Bobbin lace. Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 | ![]() Guantanamo- opened reluctantlyby Kitty Mason A statement of disapproval of this place which operates outside international law, dehumanises people and immediately loses any moral high ground in the fight against terrorism. The work develops as this place is grudgingly opened up. 43cm x 32cm x35cm. Exhibited at Divergence, 2008 | ![]() Out of kilterby Kitty Mason A cowboy belt (from Texas) and a Bin Laden headdress, the forces that have changed the shape of our world and knocked it out of kilter. H 60cm (approx). Exhibited at Divergence, 2008 |
![]() Fields of goldby Kitty Mason Driving every fortnight to teach lace in Fife, I travel by ripening fields of wheat and barley watching them turn gold as the summer progresses. This evokes childhood memories of Scotland, travelling through the ripening fields and the Tentsmuir Forest to reach the most fabulous sandy beach at Kinshaldy. It was always hot and sunny in those days! Exhibited at Lace in a Barn, 2005 |