Book Review – Lace Gumnuts

Blutengrube mit 2 Paaren

Blutengrube mit 2 Parren by Ulrike Voeleker.
Published 2023, German, English, Dutch, French & Spanish text.
72 pages with stapled glossy, softback cover.
61 different projects – floral, insects and leaves.
Just 2 pairs needed for each design. As Continue reading →

A New Twist on Tatting

A New Twist on Tatting by Catherine Austin
Printed in 1966. Hardcover.
Total of 50 patterns from tiny edges to full mats, with instructions on how to tat.
Patterns for both shuttle and needle.
Includes an interesting pattern where a Continue reading →

100 New Bobbin Lace Patterns

100 New Bobbin Lace Patterns by Yusai Fukuyama.
Reprinted 1997 by Batsford. Hard cover. Black and white pictures.
100 simple bobbin lace patterns, with some instructions in English, German, Dutch and French (and Japanese).
Marisha, 2024.

24 Snowflakes in Tatting

24 Snowflakes in Tatting by Lene Bjorn.

This is a 32 page A5 book with, as the title states, 24 different Snowflakes in Tatting, first published in 2002.

In the Introduction, the author says that there is an annual lace Continue reading →

Schneestern

Schneestern, by Ulrike Voelcker.
(Schneestern = Snow Star)

This is a 12 page leaflet (including the cover) of a pattern for a hexagon made up of multiple triangles of Binche snowflakes, separated by a cloth stitch band. Instructions are Continue reading →

New Tatting

New Tatting by Tomoka Morimoto

Published 2012

ISBN-13: 978-159668-745-5

The author was taught tatting by her mother at an early age and returned to tatting as an adult. She is an instructor at the Kasumigaoka Lace School in Tokyo.

Her Continue reading →

Rips/Twilling

Rips/Twilling, by Ulrike Voelcker
A5, 46 pages, full colour, soft card cover.

Twilling is a method of twisting your workers, or using gimps in pairs and twisting them, in order to create strong effects with colour.

Ulrike says she first Continue reading →

Peter’s Torchon Lace

Peter’s Torchon Lace, by Peter Sorensen
Published in Denmark, 2005. ISBN: 87-7847-087-0
Soft cover, quarto, full colour, 80 pages. In English.
Prickings and working diagrams for 17 table runners, with several tricks for finishing off. The first part Continue reading →

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 →