Author: Edmondson, Avril and Mary Moseley.

Title: Lacemaking in Ripon: a history.

Language: English

21x29cms, 91 pages, softcover, 2010.

Out-of-print and difficult to source.

ISBN 978-0-9547077-2-9.

A comprehensive history of lacemaking as a cottage industry in the town of Ripon, Continue reading →

Title: Malmesbury Lace.

Author: Blanchard, Joan.

Language: English

126 pages, hardcover, 1990.

Out-of-print but available second-hand.

ISBN 0-7134-6615-4.

An instructional book with 30 patterns, graded from simple insertion braids to traditional point ground laces (edgings and insertions), culminating in 7 Continue reading →

Title: Downton Lace: A History of lace making in Salisbury and the surrounding area.

Authors: Susan Hartley and Pompi Parry.

Language: English

19 pages, softcover, 1991. Published by Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum

Out-of-print but available second-hand.

ISBN 0 Continue reading →

Title: An Introduction to Downton Lace: twenty Downton lace patterns. Selected and described by Janet Stukins.
Author: Stukins, Janet.

Language: English.

Self-published, 1991. Softcover, 32 pages, illustrated.

ISBN 0-9517335-0-8.

An instructional booklet with 20 patterns, based on designs held by Continue reading →

Fiandra a tre paia (Fiandra/Flanders in 3 pair)
by Diana Dussi
Soft cover, full colour, quarto size
64 pages.
Published by Barbara Fay in 2019
In Italian, German and English.

The Fiandra in the title could refer to the geographical Continue reading →

Schneeflöcken Weißröckchen (literally, white dressed snowflakes)
by Ulrike Voelcker.
Soft cover, full colour, A4 size
72 pages, 14 patterns with full working diagrams, colour coded, for each.
Published by Ulrike Voelcker 2019
In German and English.

14 patterns, all using Continue reading →

Magic between snowflakes & Torchon
by José van Pamelen-Hagenaars 2020
Published by New energy books, Vianen, Nederlands.
Hard cover, full colour, foolscap size
34 pages, but pages are not numbered and there is no index (curious!)
A Forward in 4 Continue reading →

Lace and Bobbins by T L Huetson

Published by David & Charles  2^nd ed. 1983 ISBN0-7153-8540-2

Hardcover price not remembered.
187 pages  14.5cms x 22.5cms.

I purchased this book soon after it was published many years ago.Probably Continue reading →

History of Lace by Mrs Bury Palliser Publisher Dover.

ISBN0-486-24742.2

536 pages 266 illustrations

Mine is a reprint 1984 revised edition by Jourdain & Dryden from 1911

The original edition was put out in 1875 by Mrs Palliser with the Continue reading →

Pretty Binche

By Steffi Reinhardt, Katrin Zschoche.

“All sorts of little things in Binche Technik”

Text in German, with some English translations.

ISBN 783743 165472.

A5 format, soft cardboard cover, 56 pages.

B&W, with some coloured pages of working diagrams Continue reading →