Fashion and Fiction : dress in art and literature
in Stuart England

by Aileen Ribeiro, ISBN 0-300-10999-7
Published by Yale University Press in 2005.
Purchased from the Victorian National Gallery, Melbourne.

This is not a lace book as such, but Continue reading →

SALEX ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF LACEMAKING by Alexandra Stillwell.

Alexandra Stillwell has a reputation, as far as I’m concerned, for producing extremely good, clear and well researched books.    And this is another one in the same mould as Continue reading →

Wiener Spitzen
Barbara Fay  39.00 Euros
Review by Joyce

These patterns were derived from a set labelled Course for Proper Pupils in Bobbin Lacemaking I.  (Does this make it unsuitable for all GumNuts?)

There are 52 patterns starting Continue reading →

Lierse kant oud en nieuw
Greet Rome-Verbeylen
ISBN 90 73214 03 6
Published 1991
Review by Jan M

The cover of this book has an inviting mask featured. The technique is tamboured net – worked with a hook Continue reading →

MAILANDER SPITZE  MODERN INTERPRETIERT
by Christine Mirecki   (Milanese Lace – a Modern Interpretation)
Published 2009
A4 size, hard cover.  63 pages, in German (English translation is available from the internet)
Purchased from Barbara Fay for 34 Continue reading →

An Early Lace Workbook

Bobbin Lace Techniques before the Baroque

By Rosemary Shepherd.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Ligeti.

A4.  Soft cover.  84 pages.  Published by Lace Daisy Press with Lace Press Australia.

ISBN  978-0-9591235-4-8

This is a Continue reading →

Lace Birds
by Ulla Fagerlin and Brigitta Hulsterstrom
Published by Barbara Fay, Germany.
This lovely book is on birds, 25 in all, and all in their natural colours.
The working instructions are very clear due to the illustrations, even if Continue reading →

FUN   WITH   TATTING

and

MORE   FUN   WITH   TATTING

Karen Bovard has published two books on   SPLIT   RING   TATTING  and, apparently there is a Continue reading →

Tatted Snowflakes
By Vida Sunderman

This is a 32 page soft cover book in the Dover Needlework series of 40 tatted snowflakes and was first published in 1995. Each snowflake is illustrated, I think my favourites are the two 3D Continue reading →

Threads for Lace  Edition 5.
By Brenda Paternoster.
Self published by Brenda in 2009.
Edition 6 just rec’d by Brenda from printer, stand by for news on availability!

“A survey and comparison of 1,425 lacemaking and other threads”.
The Continue reading →