Lacemaking in Ripon

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.

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Malmesbury Lace

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

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Downton Lace: A History

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.

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An Introduction to Downton Lace

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.

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Fiandra a tre paia

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.

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Schneeflocken Weibrockchen

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

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Pretty Binche

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.

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