My friend Pamela Nottingham, who has died aged 89, was an internationally recognised lacemaker. Over the years she taught a great many people how to make lace, and wrote a number of instructional books, including The Technique of Bobbin Lace (1976), The Technique of Torchon Lace (1979) and Bobbin Lacemaking (1983). She was made MBE in 1998 for services to lacemaking.
Pam’s early life was spent in Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, where she was born to Frederick Nottingham, a railway carter, and his wife, Emily (nee Bennett), from whom Pam learned many crafts, including knitting and embroidery.
