Here is my list: Please feel free to print it off and use it whenever you're packing for a workshop. Add to it, etc and let me know what else you've added to it so I can update my list!

Workshop requirements list often states "Usual Lacemaking Equipment". What exactly does this mean?
Below is a list of equipment, by no means exhaustive, which may be considered to be "Usual Lacemaking Equipment"

Awl
Beading Needles
Bees Wax
Bobbin Box/Bag
Bobbins - wound with thread
Bobbins - spare
Carbon Paper
Coffee Mug
Contact Paper
Couronne
Cover Cloths
Crochet Hook
Curves - designing
Embroidery Hoop
Eraser
Folder - To Hold All Handouts Etc
G-Clamp
Gimp Thread
Graph Paper
Gros Grain Ribbon - To Secure Bobbins to Pillow in Transit
Hookies
Knitting Stitch Holders
Lazy Susan
Lunch
Magnifying Glass
Mirror - designing
Money - an absolute necessity
Moving Pads
Needle Pin
Note Book
Pattern/Pricking
Pencil
Pens
Pillow
Pin Cushion
Pin Lifter
Pins - for Pattern
Pins - Dividers/to Secure Gros Grain Ribbon in Transit
Plastic bags - resealable (always come in handy)
Plastic Lunchbox - to hold purchases such as bobbins etc.
Pocket Knife
Pricker
Pricking Card
Roly Poly
Scissors - Embroidery
Bowing Off
Paper
Screwdriver - To Tighten Screw On Embroidery Hoop
Sense Of Humour
Sewing Needles
Six Inch Ruler
Speech (only necessary if you've already been asked to give one)
Sticky Clothes Roller/Brush
Sticky Tape
Table
Tape Measure
Thimble
Third Hand
Thread - For Couching
Thread - Spare In Case Of Breakages
Thread Holder
Tweezers
Water Soluble Marker/Fading Marker

Chris Hancock in Adelaide, Sth Australia

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I suppose my hesitence has more to do with the reknown of the teacher and my insecurities than anything. How can I ever recover if I've left out something that Mrs. Nottingham considers essential?

Anyway, thanks for the wonderful list. I need only a bit of translation (Australian->American). What are these items in America?

Couronne? No idea. Not one.
G-Clamp? Same as our C-clamp?
Moving Pads> I'm thinking it's the felt "Mountains" used when moving up a piece of lace, right?
Roly Poly? The only roly polies I know are bugs and main dishes.
Third Hand? I always need one of these...I suspect it's simular to the Sense of Humor that I should pack....

I'd like to add a couple more items -
Footstool
Light/Lamp
Permanent marking pen for gimp lines (I'm told Sakura makes a superb pen with pigment ink at .005 thickness that doesn't bleed.)

Laurie J. Hughes, Watertown, MA, USA

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That is a terrific list, Chris, especially the "Sense of Humour" item.
BTW, Sticky Tape is called Scotch Tape in the USA.
And what is a "Couronne"?
I'd like to suggest you add the following items as well:
Chair (if needed)
Extension Cord
Lace Books
Lamp/Light
Tea Bags
Pillow Stand/Prop

Pene Piip, Groton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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To add to the list (tuck in to your "usual tool carryall")

hard candy
band-aids (plasters? what do other countries know them as, a first aid to an open pin-prick to oneself)
hackle pliers - always in my lace tool kit, for grasping the very short end of the bobbin thread that snaps in an awkward spot.

These "usual" lists are interesting! The couronne *could* be used for Rosaline but if we forget it/don't have one Rosaline makers know how to make the perles with needle and thread and paper.

Take something that could be used as a chair pillow in the event the table they provide for the chair you brought, or vice versa, doesn't suit, or you need something for your back.

As I am at least a half hour's drive from the nearest lace meeting place, and usually an hour's drive away, I'm used to getting my stuff ready the night before, packed and waiting to be grabbed on my way out the door. If it's a major workshop or event (rare, but it happens once in a while!) I put everything in the car the night before. And a checklist is essential.

In thinking about "usual lacemaking supplies" I was trying to recall instances at past events where lacemakers would have something happen and ask "have you got a...." then we'd root around in our bags and such for something to repair whatever-it-was...

Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)

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Laurie Asked:
Couronne?
Used in Needlelace to make padded rings to be added to work in progress (can also be used in Rosaline for Perles, but it's easier to do it on a paper pattern).

I have seen them referred to as C-clamp - is used to hold tambour frame stable on the table - I prefer to hold it in my hand rather than use the clamp.

Moving Pads?
I'm thinking it's the felt "Mountains" used when moving up a piece of lace, right?
Yep, exactly!

Roly Poly?br> Looks like a cotton reel, used to hold completed section of yardage lace, and is pinned to the pillow behind the work.

It's a thing used to grasp the end of broken thread so you can join it. I use hackle pliers (somebody else ...Bev... suggested hackle pliers).

Chris Hancock in Adelaide, Sth Australia

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Adele this reminds *me* of the needle lace class I took last year and someone dropped a needle onto the floor - as we were about to get on hands and knees (if physically able...) a student produced a telescopic magnet from her carryall. It didn't take long to find the needle.

add "telescopic magnet" to the list

Bev, rounding up the "usual supplies," in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada)

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I've gone and collated the list of usual lacemaking supplies. I have also divided it into what I think are logical divisions.

Hopefully, all items appear only once - so, for example you won't find Embroidery hoops listed in filet, tambour & embroidered laces - only in the *Other Lace* *General listing.

I know there is still more to come to this list. Oh, and please don't be upset if I've put your favoured lace in the Other Lace category - I've just realized that I've totally ignored the Knitted lace requirements. Sorry!!!

*General*
Cover Cloths
Crochet Hook
Lace Books
Scissors - Embroidery
Bowing Off
Paper
Thread
Thread - Spare In Case Of Breakages
Thread Holder
Pins - Glass headed
Folder - To Hold All Handouts Etc
Note Book
Pencil
Pens

*Bobbin Lace*
Beading Needles (spare - for Lazy Susan)
Bobbin Box/Bag
Bobbins - wound with thread
Bobbins - spare
Coloured thread (to make magic threads etc)
Gimp Thread
Gros Grain Ribbon - To Secure Bobbins to Pillow in Transit
Hookies
Knitting Stitch Holders
Lazy Susan
Moving Pads
Needle Pin
Pillow
Pin Cushion
Pin Lifter
Pins - for Pattern
Pins - Dividers/to Secure Gros Grain Ribbon in Transit
Pricker
Pricking Card
Roly Poly
Third Hand/hackle pliers
Striver pins

*Needle Lace*
Bees Wax
Couronne
Sewing Needles
Thimble
Thread - For Couching
heavy-grit sandpaper

*Tatting*
Tatting shuttles

*Other Lace*
*General
Embroidery Hoop/frame
*Embroidered
Awl
*Tambour
G-Clamp
Tambour hooks & handle
Safety pin
*Netting
Netting Needles
Netting Meshes
G-clamp or pillow
*Filet
Filet needles

*Designing & Pattern*
Carbon Paper
Contact Paper
Curves
Eraser
Graph Paper
Magnifying Glass
Mirror
Pattern/Pricking
Six Inch Ruler
Water Soluble Marker/Fading Marker
Permanent marking pen for gimp lines
Pens in 6 colours for working diagram
Protractor/Geoliner

*Not Lace*
Coffee Mug
Lunch
Money
Plastic bags - resealable (always come in handy)
Plastic Lunchbox - to hold purchases such as bobbins etc.
Pocket Knife
Screwdriver - To Tighten Screw On Embroidery Hoop
Sense Of Humour
Speech
Sticky Clothes Roller/Brush
Sticky Tape
Table or Pillow Stand/Prop
Tape Measure
Telescopic magnet
Tweezers
Footstool
Light/Lamp
Chair (if needed)
Extension Cord
Tea Bags
Coffee
Tissues
Band-aids (basic first aid kit)
Hard candy
Chair pillow

Chris Hancock in Adelaide, Sth Australia

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Can I safely assume that you don't tat? The list should include -

Tatting shuttles (definitely plural)
Spare bobbins
Tatting Needles
Scissors
Crochet hook, unless on shuttle
Thread, lots of it in wonderful colors and sizes
Beads
Picot beader to help thread the beads on or finish ends
Picot guages
Safety pins or paperclips for false picots
Handy wipes for sticky hands
That's all I can think of without hunting out my bag of stuff. I am sure other tatters could find even more stuff. I would add to the bobbin list if making metallic thread lace: Drinking straws, to hold thread on regular bobbins if hookies not available.

I cut them into lengths long enough to cover the thread on the neck and slit them open to slide over the thread. My pillow usually has a small bag pinned on which I call a "pillow tidy" in which I keep my crochet hook, scissors, etc. Can't forget that one.

Janice Blair, Crystal Lake, Illinois 50 miles nw of Chicago