Some time ago, I was given a Bedfordshire collar by an elderly friend -
his mother, a lace teacher in Olney, had made it in around 1910.
Last year, being tempted on a visit to The Hollies to buy Cynthia
Voysey's Bobbin Lace in Photographs (I already had the Needlelace one),
there is a photograph
Gentle Spiders,
I have a question born of a mix of curiosity and perplexity (I think).
Do any of you know if the 1979 reprint of Bobbin Lace: designs and
instruction by Ellen Lawrence and edited by the Kliots contained any
loose leaf pages with patterns/prickings on them? It's an unabridged
Hi Helen,
There are patterns associated with the books and they are available from Lacis:
http://www.lacis.com/catalog/catalog.html
Look under 'Books' - Needlework Techniques, then under 'Lace' - Bobbin. It
is 'Bobbin Lace Patterns' by Ellen Lawrence. I have the patterns not the book.
Hello,
While I own the bobbin lace book, Russische Kant, I
don't believe that a sheet of prickings came with it.
Can anyone refresh my memory?
Thank you in advance,
Sylvie
Cherry Valley, IL, USA
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Hi Sylvie and everyone
I think there was a fold out for the unicorn pattern.
I sold my copy :(
On 10/12/05, Sylvie Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
While I own the bobbin lace book, Russische Kant, I
don't believe that a sheet of prickings came with it.
Can anyone refresh my memory?
Hi All,
I know that some of you on this list are quite scholarly, and between
the collective minds here, I'm hoping someone has come across the book
I'm trying to assess.
The book is a 1981 reprint of a 1913 original called The Lace
Dictionary by C. R. Clifford..
If you have any opinions as
