A Rose for Kalofer 2025
Are you ready for the next OIDFA Congress 2025 in Kalofer, Bulgaria? Would you like to be part of a collaborative project to welcome the participants and thank the local organizers?
At the ‘Big Lace Installations’ course held by Puntaires de Girona in July 2024, it was decided to make a big lace welcome installation in KALOFER 2025. The idea is to pay homage to the Bulgarian Rose and, as Sally Olsen suggested, open it to all of you, make it a worldwide collaborative project to celebrate lace and friendship.
Do you want to be part of it?
Working directions: −
- Bulgarian roses are pink, tones of pink tending to light rose. Please avoid dark, brilliant colors. Merging 2-3 tones in the work helps to make it alive.
- The size of the pattern to make the flowers must be between 15 & 20 cm wide; you need to enlarge it about 50-60%. Link to pattern.
- DMC or similar Perle cotton size 8 – 12 according to the size of pattern (Size 12 for the 15 cm diameter, Size 8 for bigger): please make them light open enough…
- 18 – 22 bobbins
- Absolutely need to follow directions to make sure they can be mounted together!
- Start at the outside edge of the rose, finish in the inside edge, and leave 50 cm of one thread (preferable the gimp) for sewing
- Starch it quite well
- Send it FLAT to Kalofer in a large envelope with a sheet of carboard for protection to:
Bulgarian Center for Bobbin and Needle Lace
“The Kalofer rose collaborative project 2025”
ul. Hristo Botev 4 Kalofer 4370
Bulgaria
Make sure they arrive by July 15th!
Questions? kalofer.rose.proj@gmail.com
Follow the work in progress on Instagram @puntairesdegirona