Presents an array of works demonstrated by a diverse group of contemporary artists who apply traditional knitting and lacemaking techniques to unusual materials, or fresh techniques and technologies to traditional materials. This title features pieces that highlights the role of hand work as a symbol of community and communication.

Taking you through Torchon ground pieces to scarves, purse and bags, this book features a techniques section which covers lacemaking. It includes five projects with pricking patterns. It gives advice on adding decorative features, beads and tassels. It presents a guide to the stitches and techniques needed to create beautiful bobbin lace.

Offering knowledge of knitting in Estonia, this title helps to learn about traditional lace-knitting techniques, including the traditional starburst, twig, peacock, and lily of the valley patterns and their variations; and, modern adaptations of the classic ways of constructing shawls and scarves and adding lace edges.

Clare Browne has selected examples across the full range of designs and fashions, to demonstrate the skill and variety lace-makers have achieved in their work. She explores the history of lace-making from its origins in the late fifteenth century, showing how patterns and techniques developed to serve the fashions of the day.

Contains designs drawn from the handmade needle and bobbin laces of the 16th to the 18th centuries made in Italy, France, England, Flanders and Belgium.

A collection of 42 projects in 1/12 scale lace. Advice covers equipment, beginners' braid, stitches and techniques, followed by pieces for every room in the dolls' house. The projects include curtains, shawls, bedspreads, parasols and a tablecloth.

Features 62 small heart projects, each with its own pricking diagram, suitable for hanging on your Christmas tree or for decorating a card. This title includes single hearts, folded heart baskets and braided heart baskets.

Divided into three sections, this work provides readers with ten step-by-step lessons and sample projects to help them master the basic techniques in the first section. Section two presents 14 original projects that let readers perfect their new skills, while the final section reproduces nine patterns from antique sources.

Tatting is a form of lacemaking accessible to all, even those with only basic craft skills. It is akin to macrame, but working with finer materials.

This work covers the period from the early-16th century to World War I and is arranged chronologically to accommodate the underlying changes in fashionable dress and the lace worn with it. Within each chapter, the different types of lace are dealt with one by one.

This book illustrates the skill behind the making of Milanese decorated lace braid. Easy-to-follow instructions are given in the basic techniques and more advanced methods are explained to assist the experienced lace maker to work the same braids into original pieces.

Romanian Point Lace, also called needlepoint lace, Hungarian point, Czech point and Croatian point, has a worldwide following. This title covers the uses and history of this lace, looks at the tools and materials used and then provides a starter pattern and instructions for fillings and stitches.

This multi-language lace book provides the enthusiast with a collection of 75 quick and easy bobbin lace patterns. The (mainly) small designs are worked in a range of styles: Bruges Flower, Schneeberg, Russian Tape and Free, plus Torchon, Honiton and Bedfordshire

Bruges is one of the oldest lacemaking centres in the world and is renowned for the intricate designs it has produced - all based on flowers, leaves and braids with a unique and characteristic scroll. It is a sectional bobbin lace, its patterns most dramatically worked in white, cream, ecru and black.

Create your own tassels at a fraction of the cost of commercially bought trimmings with the help of this book. Projects include decorative effects for cushions, tiebacks, accessories and hangings accompanied by a guide to materials, threads, equipment and techniques.