It’s a fascinating film clip. The pattern she’s making is in Geraldine Stott’s 
Bobbin Lace Manual where she says “ This old Bedfordshire pattern is meant to 
represent the meandering River Ouse at Bedford , with the many waterlilies that 
lie on the river there.” It also appears in Pamela Nottingham’s Technique of 
Bobbin Lace (original edition) where it is called Bedfordshire spider pattern. 
In both of them half stitch is used for the ‘spider/waterlily’ while I think 
the film shows cloth stitch.
Jean in Glasgow where  we’ve had a sunny Bank Holiday Monday

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