A French-language instruction manual in the D.M.C. Library series on Renaissance lace (also called Irish lace or Luxeuil lace), made by sewing lace braids (lacets) onto a pattern and joining them with needle-made bars (brides) and filling stitches. It covers the history of the technique, materials, preparing the pattern, basting and gathering the braids, and the many bride types, picots, wheels (spiders), teeth, entre-deux, numbered lace filling stitches, fillings for leaves and circles, and grounds (fonds). It also covers lace on tulle, mounting lace in fabric, and washing and finishing. The volume has many photographic illustrations of stitch samples, full-page plates of finished lace, and cut-out patterns for the ten plates, followed by a list of D.M.C. publications and products.

Type

Book

Language

French

Pages

108