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Lace Identification a Practical Guide

Lace Identification – a Practical Guide.
b Gillian Dye and Jean Leader
A very well written book suitable as a lace guide with very comprehensive chapters.
Very up to date and well set up about lace identification, leaving my other Continue reading →

Tatting GR-8 Patterns

Tatting GR8 Patterns.

By

Gary & Randy Houtz –

aka The Shuttle Brothers.

This is their 6^th book of Tatting Patterns, and is in a similar format to their previous books. There is a nice dedication to Gary, Continue reading →

Gingerbread

Download PDF version here Gingerbread

GINGERBREAD from an old English Woman & Home Magazine in the late 1960s.

8 oz. butter
8 oz. soft brown sugar
8 oz black treacle
12 oz plain flour
2 level dessertspoons ground ginger (we Continue reading →

Bobbin Makers

Rod is putting together a record of Australian and New Zealand bobbin makers, both past and present. This is the most up to date list. If you have any information for Rod, or digital photos you can Continue reading →

Collection 1 by Nakazaki

Collection I by Kumiko Nakazaki.
A cardboard folder, containing 9 sets of sheets of Binche patterns and one Flanders. Each set contains a photo of the finished article, the pricking (sometimes in 2 or 3 sizes), and a large, Continue reading →

Marion’s Book List

Still available as at Sunday 28th March 2021

Birthday and Birth Signs in Lace Edited by Bridget M. Cook. $20
Bobbin Lace Making Doreen Wright $20
Lace in Miniature Ann Collier. $20
New Ideas for Miniature Bobbin Lace Ros Snowden. Continue reading →

Nutella Cake

Two Ingredient Nutella cake.

Ingredients – 4 large, fresh eggs and 250gms of Nutella
(Buy a 1kg jar of Nutella if you can find it, you’re going to make this often!).

Preheat oven to 180 deg (160 fan forced).
Grease Continue reading →

Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader

Bedfordshire lace by Jean Leader.
Published by Crowood Press, January 2021.
Hard cover, full colour, 128 pages. Quarto size, 19x25cm.

From basic information on equipment needed for bobbin lacemaking, how to make a pricking, how to wind bobbins, explanation of Continue reading →

Marbling wooden bobbins

Marbling plain bobbins with nail polish

Marbling is fun. I buy the little rectangular plastic boxes from Woolies, the throw-away ones about 10cm x 5 cm. Half fill with water, and drop 2 or Continue reading →

Kobe Kant Special

Kobe Kant Special.

Folder of 16 patterns, all on individual sheets, published by Kantcentrum, Bruges, for the 2010 OIDFA 14^th World Lace Congress in Kobe, Japan.

An absolute bounty of beautiful patterns – 3 Torchon, including a circular mat Continue reading →