Lace Making

Bobbin lace can be incredibly beautiful, but it’s equally intimidating. Tiny threads, specialized materials and patterns that just look like grids and dots are fairly unwelcoming, and clear documentation can be hard to find. Bobbin lace is basically an elaborate braid and/or weaving pattern worked around carefully placed pins to form holes. If you’ve managed …

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Limerick lace is a floral tulle lace: It is hand-embroidered on machine-made cotton net. In this tutorial I'll show you how to make Limerick lace by hand.

This week’s historical how-to relates to my own interest as a bobbin lace maker and a curiosity as to how my craft was represented in the Collections held here in St Andrews. The craft of Bobbin l…

Today’s post is unplanned. It’s about the learning process we all go through. When you learn how to make bobbin lace, you learn the whole stitch on two pairs and hoopla we go to the multiple pair lace making. Not thinking even once about what we might have missed. Over the years I noticed that […]

Coin Specifications: Country Finland Date November 29th, 2010 Material Centre CuNi - Ring Nordic Gold Diameter 27,25 mm

With this video tutorial you will see how to make project in Irish Lace technique. Used for work: 100% cotton yarn of various thickness. Also in the lesson i...

"74 Pages. (PDF - EBook - Digital Download) This book is an excellent study tool for the lace maker to use to hone their craft. Widely illustrated, with excellent detail - this book will lead you step by step through the process of making ten different laces. The unpricked patterns are included to make Fan Pattern, Cat's Face, Ring Pattern, Honeycomb Fan, True Lovers' Knot, Enlarged Honeycomb Pattern, Buckinghamshire Pattern, Floral Design, Lovely Insertion, and French Ground Laces. Each of these patterns are incorporated into lessons in this book, with many diagrams and detailed instruction. It is like having a teacher sit beside you while you learn your stitches! Contents of this book include: *Introduction *Apparatus for Lacemaking *To Begin a Pattern *Fan Pattern *To Work Honeycomb Filling *\"Cat's Face\" *Ring Pattern *Honeycomb Fan *The Lover's Knot *A Wide Honeycomb Pattern *A Fine Old Bucks Pattern *A Floral Pattern *An Insertion *French Ground *Varieties of Lace *On Teaching Lace Making *Pricking Parchments"

Share on Facebook Tweet it Share on Google Pin it Share it Email Bobbin lace is another technique of lacemaking. It’s also known as pillow lace, and it is made by weaving threads wound on bobbins around pins holding a pattern to a pillow. It is a complicated and beautiful art, but achievable with practice […]

by Doris Campbell Preston, PRINT ISBN: 9780486247083 E-TEXT ISBN: 9780486156354