La Dentelle aux Fuseaux [Bobbin Lace]
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A French practical manual for teaching oneself bobbin lace (dentelle aux fuseaux), by lace manufacturer Jacques Cottier, 3rd edition, 20th thousand. It opens with a preface and short history of lace, then covers equipment (pillow, bobbins, thread, pins, pricking patterns), basic stitches and motifs, and the lace grounds (torchon, Dieppe, Brussels, fond à la Vierge, fond mariage, Valenciennes and others). The main part gives step-by-step pin-by-pin working instructions for lingerie laces, Cluny, insertions and incrusted lace, from 14 to 56 bobbins, each with a photograph of the finished lace and an enlarged numbered pricking diagram.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1908
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 99
- Weaving drafts
- on 1 page: 43
- Archive notes
- 3rd edition.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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