Dear Sally,  Thanks for providing the Swedish book source of your project.  I found a typed list (perhaps prepared as early as the 1950's) inserted in this book with additional advice for the lace maker - in English - from the "Forlag: A/B E.HOLMQVISTS EFTR. Arlov Sweden".  Please bear in mind this was long before a lot of conservation, restoration and cleaning advice was modified from old methods to new.  Also, today's threads may have different properties.  Even so, I think others might like to print this to insert in their copies of the book series, so am sending for all to use:  Advice:  1. Put pillow on a low table.  Elbow-high is sufficient. 2. Place the pins straight down in the pattern, otherwise the pattern can be damaged. 3. When lace making, never use anything but linen thread. 4. Stretch the threads during the work so the lace will be firm and smooth. 5. How to in a simple way begin and end a lace is described in lace No. 4 D. 6. The linen on which the laces are to be put must be correct size for the laces.  It ought to be thin, loose linen for laces that are made with thin threads, thicker and more compact linen for thicker laces. 7. Never use colored linen for handmade laces. 8. The hems ought to be thin, i.e. 4-7 mm. 9. If embroidery is wanted, this ought to be simple in design and preferably be sewed with linen thread in the same color as the lace and linen fabric. 10. Small clothes and table centers can easily be chemically cleaned, which you can do yourself. 11. When washed in water, the lace must be carefully washed and rinsed and then dried lying stretched to its original size.  Then it must be pressed with caution with cloth between the pressing iron and the lace. 12. Remember that the lace is liable to shrink more than the linen fabric.  Lace mentioned in 5 above, No. 4 D, is in Vol. 1.  If you need a translation, please let me know.  As to the crown, Vol. 1 says that the yellow metal ring is delivered with the pattern, and the price includes that additional cost.  I have no catalog with prices and ordering information.  Translations are given for each lace in Vol. 3.  Included here is only the one for the lace crown:  Lace number 49 K and 50 K. 29 pairs of bobbins.  Thread number 40/3 or metal thread of corresponding thickness.  The bridal crown is mounted on a yellow metal ring, which is added to the pattern.  If the bridal crown is to be white, the ring must be covered with white cotton ribbons.  The bridal crown is starched with spray starch, meant for hard-starching.  The bridal crown with 5 points is 9,5 cm in diameter and 6,5 cm high = 50 K. The bridal crown with 7 points is 13,5 cm in diameter and 6,5 cm high = 49 K.  I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the above dimensions, but have typed as shown in this old translation.  There are very narrow ribbons used today for ribbon embroidery that might be suitable for covering the metal ring without being bulky.  Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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