About Us -
Josco Lace Supplies

Hello and Welcome to Josco Lace Supplies.

My name is Joanne Scowcroft and I started this specialty lace making supplies business in September 2005.

About the business -

Josco Lace Supplies started with the necessities for needle lace makers, but this quickly expanded to bobbin lace and other forms of lace making, kumihimo, miniature needleworks and fine embroidery.
 

Josco Lace Supplies specialises in those hard-to-find things
such as specialist needle craft fabrics, threads and equipment.
 

We pride ourselves on fast and friendly service
and we look forward to being of service to you.

About me - well, I am a lover of needle art and lace-making.  Like every lace maker or embroiderer, I need more hours in the day just so I can spend them stitching.  I have been interested in needle art and lace since I can remember, but I decided to get serious about 15 years ago and enrolled in an Advanced Needlecraft course at the Technical College.  This largely self-taught amateur wanted to know "how to do things properly".  And that was the start of wonderful adventures, lasting friendships and ever-expanding interests, all in needle art and lace making.

This is me, sitting in my favourite spot on the shores of Lake Macquarie, NSW.  (By the way, I am looking up a particular filet net technique.)

Current Projects

I have a couple of projects "on the go" at the moment. 

The first is a piece of filet lace on 14 count fabric.  It is a pair of miniature curtains, kit No. D11 from the Thumbelina catalogue.  It is worked in Finca Perle 16.

The second is a bobbin lace edging of my own design for a towell.  It is worked in Finca Crochet Cotton No. 10.

Peking Miniature Carpet, A Thumbelina Kit by Margaret Morgan, appears on page 32 of Volume 16 No. 9, 2009.  My abbreviated version is shown at right.

A set of needlecraft accessories in cross stitch, by self, appears  on page 60 of Volume 16 No. 9, 2009.  The scissor-keep is shown at left.

The Lacey Tulle Bag by Anne Spicer appears on page 32 of Volume 15, No. 11, 2009.

The Best Thing -

If you asked me to tell you the best thing about being in this business I would have to say it is having happy customers.  There are lots of also-best things, but one that comes to mind is that I do seldom run out of thread!

Supplies for Making Lace, Fine Embroidery, Miniature Needleworks and Kumihimo