1989 Kumiko previously studied French literature but then discovered lace. Fascinated
by the beauty and delicacy of lace, she decided to go to Bruges to study bobbin
]lacemaking.
At Kantcentrum (the Lace Center), she took advanced courses taught by Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet, Madam Claeys and other teachers for three years and learned the technique of not only bobbin lace but also needle lace, finishing and mounting, and the history and identification of lace.

1990 She began writing articles on lace and producing her original patterns for “KANT”, the quarterly magazine issued by Kantcentrum.
While still finishing her masters courses,she was sent to Spain, Luxembourg, UK, and France as a demonstrator where she exhibited the beauty of lace and taught the joy of lacemaking.

1993 Having completed her studies in teaching and designing, Kumiko received a diploma in teaching from Kantcentrum as the first Japanese lacemaker.
An accomplished lacemaker herself, she designed numbers of lace patterns including Binche, Flanders,Chrysanthemum, Point de Paris, Rococo, Clunny, Rosaline and free laces, but her interest has always remained in Binche lace, which is known as the lacewith the most intricate combination of the thread movement and composition.

2000 Published"Memoire 3"in Belgium
Held an exhibition at Kantcentrum in June. She became one of the editors of KANT magazine,
and began producing patterns regularly for each issue.
Kumiko and other members of the master Binche class created a joint work"Hoop"("Hope"), the theme for Lace against Cancer. All proceeds from the sale of the pattern folders were donated to a charity in an aid to promote research on cancer. The work was auctioned in September and is now in the US.
She came back to Tokyo in October to holdan exhibition at Ginza Mikimoto Gallerywhich gathered over 2500 visitors.

2002 She wrote series of articles titled "A Letter from Bruges"for Keito-dama magazine,
Nihon Vogue-sha Company.Held an exhibition in Brussels in December.
Published "Poesie I" in Japan.

Kumiko Nakazaki is one of the few lace-makers and lace designers who has the ability and knowledge of producing designs for various types of laces. Her ambitions to express the ideas in the lace has made her create over 1,000 patterns until today.Her work is imaginative, poetic in style and full of inspiration. Her refreshing and pleasing designs have attracted not only the lacemakers but also the non-lacemakers who now wait for the new patterns to come out. Kumiko enjoys playing violin and is familiar with the rhymes in French verses.It is her "off-time" passion for music and poetry that makes the thread movements in her work so rhythmical and her designs lively. While enjoying the challenge of designing, Kumiko continues to work enthusiastically to revive the traditional lace by redrafting and reproducing antique patterns, some of which have been worked out and published in her books. As a lacemaker and lace designer Kumiko spends as much time as possible in Bruges, but is recently kept busy by her students in Japan. Her enthusiasm and devotion are "borderless".