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.

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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

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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

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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

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Kobe Kant Special

Kobe Kant Special.

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

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

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Syllabus Binche

Syllabus Binche I, II and III.

Three folders of Binche instructions and patterns, by Anne-Marie Verbeke-Billiet, and published by Kancentrum Bruges.  In three languages – German, French and English.

It states in the introduction that this publication is neither Continue reading

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Old Time Tools and Toys

Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework by Gertrude Whiting.
DOVER publication
ISBN0-486-22517-8
First printed in 1928, my copy reprint 1971
357 pages. Over 200 illustrations
16.5cmsx23cms.
No idea of price nothing on it.
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