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Eric Eliason: The Island of Lace: Drawn Threadwork on Saba in the Dutch Caribbean (21 May 2023)
Tarmo Thorström: Lace, Lacing, Laced (16 Apr 2023)
Claude Vuille: The Life of an Auction House Lace Specialist: Or Sharing Little Secrets of Buying and Selling Lace at Auctions (19 Mar 2023)
Gérard Maizou and Kathrin Müller: Oya Lace − From Ottoman Fashion to Global Textile Art (12 Feb 2023)
Anita Jones: A Legacy of Lace: Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone (15 Jan 2023)
Evelyn McMillan: War Lace: the story of how fine lacemaking survived in Belgium during World War I (11 Dec 2022)
Grace Gamble: The Origin of Lace - Inspiration and Interpretation (20 Nov 2022)
Carol McFadzean: Mrs. Treadwin: A Legacy of Importance (16 Oct 2022)
Petra Czumalová and Dagmar Beckel-Machyckova: Emilie Paličková and her Successors (18 Sept 2022)
Emma Cormack and Michele Majer: Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen, Exhibition Preview ( 5 June 2022)
Patricia Miranda: A Repairing Mend: The Lace Archive (15 May 2022)
Cecilia Gunzburger: Civility and Cleanliness: Early Lace for Tables, Beds, and Altars (24 April 2022)
Rosemary Shepherd, Vicki Taylor, and Lindy de Wijn: Spaces Make Lace - The Janice Jones Lace Collection (20 Mar 2022)
Sue-an van der Zijpp & Ad Timmermans: The Lace Collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (27 Feb 2022)
Ana Andrade: VEREDAS - Lacemaking in Northeastern Brazil (17 Jan 2022)
Elizabeth Kurella: Marian Powys, A Life in Lace (19 Dec 2021)
Victoria Brown: Legacy of Lace Arts Project (21 Nov 2021)
Maeve M. Hogan: Lace from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection (17 Oct 2021)
Greet Rome-Verbeylen: Lace Art Today (19 September 2021; with OIDFA-USA)
Femke Speelberg: Early Lace Books and the People who Made Them (23 May 2021)
Carol James: What’s Sprang? And examples of sprang lace from history (18 April 2021) *recording available only until 1 June 2021*)
Veronika Irvine: Repetition: Its aesthetic appeal and application to lace design (21 Mar 2021)
Michael Yonan: Empress Maria Theresa's Lace Dress - A Historical Puzzle (21 Feb 2021)
Kasuni Rathnasuriya: Ceylon Bobbin Lace and KÚR Sustainable Design (24 Jan 2021)
Angharad Rixon: Doily Free Zone: Creating a digital space for contemporary lace (20 Dec 2020)
David Hopkin: "We're the Hunters of Pleasure!" Lacemakers' Feastdays and Holidays (22 Nov 2020)
Norma Owens and Fiona Harrington: The Headford Lace Project and The Space Between (31 Oct 2020)
Dagmar Beckel-Machyckova: Lace Beyond the Pattern (18 Oct 2020)
Kara Quinteros: Zero-Waste through Bobbin Lace (15 Aug 2020)
Elena Kanagy-Loux: Lace - A Journey (22 Jul 2020)