Course Information

2024

This year’s Edinburgh Lace Course will be held at Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Currie, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The work rooms will be the same as last year – the Carnegie and Wardlaw Rooms in The James Watt Centre.

This is a Residential/Non-Residential Bobbin Lace Course for complete beginners, advanced Lace Makers or any stage in between. It will consist of morning and afternoon tutored sessions. Monday 2-5pm, Tuesday – Thursday 9am-5pm with an hour for lunch and Friday 9am-4pm. The workrooms will be open in the evenings for those who would like to work untutored. Claire Bonito, Frances Bell, Kitty Mason and Carole Smith are booked to come as tutors.

Course Tuition

Tutors will be allocated based on the techniques requested and students will be notified who their tutor will be in the message sent to confirm the final payment. The tutor will contact the students in advance of the course to discuss patterns etc.

Display & Challenge

Following the success of the challenge in 2023, the theme for 2024 is SPACE.

Please create a piece of lace on the theme of SPACE. This could be any technique and any size, it could be your own design or someone else’s. We will have an area to display these pieces of lace. If you didn’t attend last year, you are still welcome to join in with this challenge.

So often at courses, the students start new pieces of lace but finish them at home. We would love to see some of your finished lace so please bring them along with you.

Meals & Snacks

Meal and Snack options during the week:

• Breakfast is included with residential accommodation.
• Coffee, lunch and tea: there are several places to eat on campus during the day.
• Evening meals at the university are available to both residents and non-residents and require to be pre-booked. These will be available on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The cost will be £16.50 per night. The menu will be circulated before the course for orders to be placed. Meals are prepared according to this information – if you have forgotten what you have ordered, we will have a list of your selections available to check each evening.
• Evening meals are also available at the Marriott Hotel.
• We will hold a Course Dinner on the Wednesday Evening at the Marriott Hotel.
• If you are planning on eating at the university or coming to the course dinner, please let us know if you have any dietary requirements or allergies.

NB: Part of our contract with the Conference Centre says: ‘Except in exceptional circumstances, and only with prior written approval of the General Manager, visitors and delegates are not permitted to consume food, alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages on the Conference Centre premises that have not been supplied by the Conference Centre.
We have managed to negotiate the following: The centre agrees that guests are permitted to consume food and non-alcoholic beverages purchased from all on-site retail outlets.

Accommodation

Accommodation is likely to be in the Anna McLeod Hall of Residence, the same as previous years. The bedrooms are single, en-suite, rooms with internet access and tea/coffee making facilities. They do not have a TV, hairdryer or radio/alarm clock.
This accommodation is a 10/15 min walk from the James Watt Centre. It has a limited number of disabled parking spaces at the front door and the car park is only a little walk away. If you require use of the disabled space, please indicate this when you submit your application form. Spaces will be reserved and allocated using the car’s registration number. Please only use these spaces if you have been allocated one.

Alternative Accommodation Option on campus:
The Marriott Hotel (CY)
Courtyard Edinburgh West
2 Research Avenue South
Edinburgh, EH14 4BA

Website: www.courtyardedinburghwest.com

Phone: 0131 526 3210

If you would like to choose this option you will need to book the Hotel yourself and pay the Non-Residential Fee for the Lace Course.

Sales Day

On the Wednesday we will have a Sales Day with lace equipment suppliers. Your friends are welcome to come between 11-3pm on that day to shop and/or to look at what people are making.

For 2024 we are delighted to welcome back Roseground who will be returning to the Edinburgh Lace Course after a number of years. Please get in touch with them if you would like to pre-order items for collection at the course.

Website: www.roseground.com

Equipment

Equipment required – see list

Map & Travel Directions

For a map of the HW Campus and travel directions to the University – see contact page

Fees

For the 2024 Edinburgh Lace Course the fees for course tuition will be £210. We also have a limited number of untutored places for £150.

All spaces are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis and a waiting list will be opened when the course is full.

Accommodation in the university residence is on a Bed and Breakfast basis and will cost £72 per night. If accommodation is required on the Sunday night before the course, this is also available.

Evening meals at the university are £16.50 and are available to residents and non-residents on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

The course dinner at the Mariott Hotel on the Wednesday evening will cost £35.

All the details are on the application form. As an example, a tutored place on the course staying in the residence Monday to Thursday and including all the meals will cost £582.50.

A non-refundable deposit should be paid with your application to secure your place. For a residential place the deposit is £120 and for a non-residential place it is £50. The balance should be paid by 19th April.

Payment details
Please send your deposit at the time of booking. The final payment will be due not later than 19th April.

The Edinburgh Lace Course has an account with the Bank of Scotland.
The details are as follows:
Edin Lace Course
Sort code: 80 06 20
Acc No: 00389920
If paying from overseas the further information you need Is:
IBAN: GB56BOFS80062000389920
BIC: BOFSGB21362

Cheques should be made payable to ‘The Edinburgh Lace Course’.
An e-mailed receipt will be sent to confirm your place on the course. If you would like a paper receipt for your deposit please enclose a SAE with your booking.