If your enquirer understands a little French, I'd highly recommend Modèles de dentelles au fusau : Cluny by Mick Fouriscot & Mylene Salvador & "Cluny de Brioude, dentelle aux fuseaux" by Mick Fouriscot & Odette Arpin .
The first of these starts with the basics, so might not be quite what your acquaintance wants (although some of the later pieces in it are beautiful and reasonably demanding), the Cluny de Brioude book is more advanced and has some beautiful patterns. They are both available from Amazon.fr if more local lace suppliers don't stock them. as is a brand new third book in that series, "Cluny de Brioude: dentelle polychrome" by Odette Arpin. I haven't seen a copy of that on yet (Guess what's just gone on my birthday wish list!), but it's likely to be excellent. The diagrams in all these books (and many on other laces from the same publisher) are excellent, so good that it would possible to work the patterns without knowing any French at all if one has a reaonable knowledge of basic Cluny technique. The only English language book on Cluny (rather than Beds.) lace I know of is an old Batsford one by Pam Nottingham (?) and probably out of print now. Beth in a rainy and rather chilly Cheshire, NW England Liz wrote: > Can anyone help, please. - I have had a request for some patterns of Cluny > lace - more advanced rather than simple level. > If someone could point me in the direction of a good book or 2, that I can > pass on to my friend I would be very grateful.. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
