These lacy snowflakes are perfect for beginners and offer an infinite variety of designs that are fun to make. Tatting is a traditional technique similar to making lace. These 20 fresh designs have a modern feel, with projects in clean pastel colours. Each design has easy to follow instructions accompanied by a diagram. Use your tatted snowflakes as Christmas tree decorations, coasters, or to embellish bigger projects such as wall decorations.

This is THE book on Split Ring Tatting that the tatting world has been waiting for This book will teach you not only how to work Split Ring Tatting but it will give you an understanding of the uniqueness of the technique, how to manipulate it, and various ways to work it. Learn how to create Take Off Rings and utilize joins to create unique, contemporary designs never before offered. There are NO chains in this book.....only rings If you like how geometric and patterned tatting patterns are, you will enjoy the patterns in this book. This book could be alternatively titled: Fun with Geometrics. There are 55 designs and 37 pages of patterns in this 65 page book.

This book collects three early texts with full illustrations on lacemaking: Old Point Lace, and How to Copy It (1878), by Daisy Waterhouse Hawkins; Point and Pillow Lace (1899), by A. Mary Sharp; Lace: Its Origin and History (1904), by Samuel L. Goldenberg. These texts review patterns, descriptions, and histories of a wide range of laces.

A book that will appeal to lacemakers and local historians alike It explores, through public records and personal anecdotes, the villages that were crucial to the development of bobbin lace Photographs include many from the author's own extensive collection, previously unpublished, as well as a selection from the renowned Cowper and Newton Museum, brought together especially for this book Tips are included on how to care for and use your old vellum prickings.

This definitive, profusely illustrated history traces the development of lace from earliest times to late 19th century, covering the laces of Italy, Greece, England, France, Flanders, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, and many other lands. A landmark of 19th-century scholarship, revised and enlarged in 1901, the book includes coverage of reticella, point de France, Valenciennes, Chantilly, point d'Espagne, and a host of other varieties.

Immensely useful volume, containing over 400 lace-related terms such as Florentine knots, lappets, a pillow horse, winkie pin, spangles, reticella, honiton, guipure, and Tuscan filet, discusses the origin, nomenclature, date and sequences of development of the more controversial forms. Enhanced with over 250 illustrations depicting various lace patterns, including a magnificent lace collar worn by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Queen Victoria's wedding veil, the bridal tulle worn by Diana, Princess of Wales; and much more. A valuable book for lace-makers; a handy reference for cultural historians and needlecraft and fashion writers.

Comprehensive manual shows how to create every kind of bobbin lace. Step-by-step stitch instructions, clear diagrams. History, tools, drafting patterns, more. 279 illus.

Master the art of needle lace making in this image-rich guide! Step by step, it explains the needed materials, takes you through the first, core skills, and teaches the process, from creating the pattern and preparing the support to separating, trimming, and smoothing. Detailed row-by-row drawings and photos clearly showing the threads' placements help you learn quickly and without frustration. Then follow the instructions for 40 different lace patterns. Included are many examples of ways you can use your finished lace in beautiful and creative ways, along with dozens of variations that will let you add your own personality to your lace, and understand the draw that lace making has had over the millennia.