Tatting Collage, by Lindsay Rogers.
This edition Published March, 2012.
A5, hard cover, covered spiral binding.
96 pages.

“Tatting Collage” has some lovely ideas to use by building up the patterns supplied for a number of plants ,flowers,trees & insects. Continue reading →

One Shuttle Tatting by Lindsay Rogers
Published February 2019.
Hard cover, covered spiral binding, colour, 80 pages.
Easy to use book showing what can be achieved with just a shuttle, thread, hook and sometimes a few beads.  Suitable for Continue reading →

Occhi – Patchwork und mehr, by Adelheid Dangela.

A5, soft cover.  Contains small motifs that are put together to make larger pieces, e.g., 2 clover leaf triangles put bottom to bottom for a lozenge shape, and that is used Continue reading →

Guida al Ricamo Reticello Liberty by Laura Marzorati. 2nd edition 2012, first published 2008, Il Castello, Milan. No ISBN. In Italian. 80 pp, soft cover, 22 euros from Barbara Fay.

As a student of Margaret Stephens (reticella and aemelia ars, Continue reading →

Herbarium: Fiori e Colori a Reticello.  Giuliana Buonpadre, 2015, Quaderno, Verona, 80 pp., soft cover. From Barbara Fay, 35 euros. Italian, French and English.

Another Reticello book (see also review of Guida al Ricamo Reticello Liberty  by Marzorati), Continue reading →

Self-published. Available from: Doreen@needlelace.com
Cost UK21pounds plus postage.

Doreen has published 3 books on needlelace;
Flowers in Needlepoint Lace, Dryad Press, 1987
Needlepoint Lace: Designs from the Countryside, Batsford, 1991
Needlepoint Lace: Designs from the Town, Batsford, 1994

Doreen has Continue reading →

Tatting Adventures with Beads, Shuttle & Needle.
By Judith Connors.

This is a small book of 80 pages, produced by Lacis Publications.   It is filled with useful information, and practical help, with clear diagrams.

It is suitable for Continue reading →

Lovely Tatting.by Hye-oon Lee.

This is a 117 page book on tatting “Doilies for Spring & Summer”.  After the Introduction, there are a few pages of instructions and diagrams showing how to Tat, and then a couple of Continue reading →

In Praise of the Needlewoman – embroiderers, knitters, lacemakers and weavers in Art, by Gail Carolyn Sirna.
ISBN 85894 3418.
Not much in the way of lacemakers, but does include a piece on Penelope, applicable to us Gumnuts.
Also contains Continue reading →