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Take the final step toward becoming a bona fide beginner lace-maker and learn the third stitch in our Lace Lessons series: the Whole Stitch. 

Review how to set-up by watching this video or reading these instructions. 

Then, take on the challenge of the Whole Stitch: 

Watch the "Lesson 3: The Whole Stitch" video here. 

Now that you've mastered the Cloth Stitch, you're ready for the Half Stitch. Join Jane Meier for a second lesson in lace-making and learn another stitch used to make the Human Bobbin lace.

If you haven't already, you'll first need to learn how to set-up and prepare for lace-making.

Watch the "Start-up" video here.

Read the "Start-up" written instructions here. 

Then try your hand at the Half Stitch. 

Watch the "Lesson 2: The Half Stitch" video here. 

At Untitled #59 (Undercover) local lace-maker Jane Meier successfully orchestrated “The Human Bobbin Project.” Jane turned visitors into human bobbins to make a 6-foot by 6-foot piece of lace out of 600 feet of rope. It was lace-making at epic proportions.

Here, Jane will teach three introductory lessons in Torchon lace-making using common household materials. Torchon is an English lace with geometric forms, commonly used as trimming on undergarments and linens due to the sturdy construction and heavier threads. You’ll be learning three stitches—each of which went into making the Human Bobbin lace.  We'll release a lesson a week, over the next three weeks. Let’s start with the “Cloth Stitch.”

First, learn how to set-up and prepare for lace-making.

Watch the “Start-up" video here.

Read  the “Start-up" written Instructions here.

Now you’re ready for Lesson #1: The Cloth Stitch.

Watch the "Lesson 1: The Cloth Stitch" video here.

This work is called Every Step a Lotus, drawing inspiration from a sutra box in the Asian Art collection.

Taking into account the theme for Untitled #55 (Bound), local artist Alicia Bailey bound a box-like book that incorporates historic facts and observations about the tradition of foot binding in China, both in terms of form and content. Just as, according to tradition, the ideal bound foot (called a “Golden Lotus”) is one-third the normal length, the size of Alicia’s book is one-third that of the sutra box which inspired it. The pages of her book include step-by-step instructions for foot-binding, photographic images, x-rays of bound feet, and some example images of the exquisite and elegant shoes that were made for bound feet.

In preparing for our exhibition Becoming Van Gogh, we came across the book Van Gogh’s Table, which shares the history and the recipes of the Auberge Ravoux, where Van Gogh lived during the last few months of his life. 

Here are two recipes we sampled from the book, with our own notes—about our triumphs and our tears—added in. For dDIY #10, your mission is to make a meal from Van Gogh’s last home. Channel the spirit of Van Gogh with a serving a soup and soufflé!