Bobbin Lace Conservation Workshop — Programme for Apprentices
Victoria Museum has launched a six-month conservation programme for bobbin lace for art-academy students — practical work on original late-19th-century exhibits.
Since January 2026 a six-month practical programme has launched in the Victoria Museum restoration workshop for students of the restoration departments of the Kyiv Academy of Arts and the Lviv Academy. The programme focuses on conservation of bobbin lace — one of the most fragile materials of historical fashion. Apprentices work on original late-19th-century exhibits from the museum collection: Brussels-type lace, Valenciennes, Honiton, as well as samples of Ukrainian lace from Bobrynets.
The programme curator — the museum's chief restorer with thirty years of experience — teaches basic techniques: microscopic thread identification, dust and protein cleaning, tear stabilisation with cobweb thread, colour selection of restoration stitches. A separate lecture programme is devoted to the history of lace in Ukraine — Bobrynets, Reshetylivka, Krolevets as centres of the Ukrainian bobbin lace school. Programme graduates receive certificates recognised by the professional textile restoration community.
