Following the introduction of various EU legislation, I no longer ship to Europe or Northern Ireland, but I can still ship my handmade products to the rest of the world.

US customers: please feel free to shop in confidence, as your shipping costs now include the US import taxes, which will be forwarded to the US government on your behalf by my shipping provider, Royal Mail.

With beautiful yarns in hand, I knit and crochet to create unique pieces that will elevate your special event!

I'm Julia, the maker behind Draped in Lace, spinning my own yarns and sourcing high-quality vintage yarns to be able to knit and crochet beautiful lace-patterned accessories for you and your home from the comfort of my home in the West Midlands, just 300m from the border with Warwickshire.

I was brought up in an inner-city area of south-east Birmingham, moving out to the leafier suburbs as a teenager. With limited outdoor play options, my left-handed mother helped me, a right-hander, to learn to knit at the tender age of six. I taught myself to crochet a few years later.

From leaving school at 16 until my early 30s, I worked in offices as an admin/secretary/P.A., all the time cultivating my passion for the craft, making toys and other treasures. I opened my first online shop when I was in my mid-30s and a stay-at-home mom. I made hats, scarves and tea cosies, gaining enough recognition to be contacted by a TV advertisement company to make several tea cosies for their offices and also by a drinks company to make tea cosies in specific colours and patterns for the launch of a range of teas at a trade fair.

I began teaching both of my children to knit when they were around six years old, passing on my skills and creating a beautiful legacy that continues to bring us closer together. They are now in their late teens and early twenties, still learning, as I am.

I changed direction and opened Draped in Lace around 2015, after learning to spin my own yarns and deciding that I needed to make more luxurious items for the luxurious fibres that I was spinning. I love the complexity and mental challenge of knitting lace.

I am committed to using natural and eco-friendly materials as much as possible and enjoy supporting sheep farmers. I often leave my yarns in the sheep's natural colour or blend them to make new natural colours. If I dye them, I use eco-friendly, non-metallic dyes. I also appreciate the value of high-quality vintage yarns, which are often disregarded and tossed aside yet carry immense potential, character, and a history of our ever-changing fibre fashions.

One of my proudest moments to date is when one of my shawls became part of a costume for the famous U.S. actress Kecia Lewis on the stage of a New York theatre. Please take a look at the photo above.

Everything I do, I do by hand to as high a standard as I possibly can, and I am very proud of what I do.

I invite you to visit my blog, where you can find photographs and valuable information about my creations.

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