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Coggeshall Lace
Coggeshall Lace
Jean Dudding · 1976
Book · 25 pages
A short 1976 booklet on the history and technique of Coggeshall lace, a tamboured (hook-embroidered) net lace made in Essex, England. It covers lace types and machine-made net, tambour tools and frames, the early Coggeshall industry and its link to Limerick lace, filling stitches and designs, and the 19th and 20th century decline and revival. It includes photographs of motifs, a collar and a handkerchief, diagrams of six filling stitches, a bibliography and sources for tambour hooks.
Coggeshall Tambour Lace - a short history
Coggeshall Tambour Lace - a short history
Jean Dudding · 1988
Book · 55 pages
A 1988 illustrated history of Coggeshall tambour lace, an Essex lace made by working chain stitch with a hook on machine-made net. It covers the technique and tools, the development of machine net (bobbinet), tambouring in Scotland and Limerick, and the growth of the Coggeshall industry in the 19th century. Later chapters deal with fashion trends, the early 20th century, recollections of lacemakers, the 1920-1940 period, makers of Great Tey, and the 1976 revival. It includes many photographs of hooks, frames, collars, veils, mats and modesty vests, plus a bibliography and useful addresses.
Creating Coggeshall Lace
Creating Coggeshall Lace
Jean Dudding · 1979
Book · 28 pages
A beginner's manual on making Coggeshall lace, a tamboured net lace worked with a tambour hook on cotton net, published in 1979. It gives a short history of the lace in Coggeshall, Essex, lists materials and equipment, and explains how to mount the frame and net. Step-by-step instructions cover the chain stitch, zig-zag, drawback and knot stitches, finishing off, and designing and transferring patterns. It closes with diagrams of decorative filling stitches such as honeycomb, bold smuggler, spot, eyelet, check, seed pearl and birds eye, plus project suggestions, photographs of finished lace, and suppliers.
Creating Coggeshall Lace
Creating Coggeshall Lace
Jean Dudding · 1988
Book · 32 pages
A beginner's manual on making Coggeshall tambour lace, a net lace worked entirely with a tambour hook in chain stitch. It covers the history of the lace in Coggeshall, Essex, from the early 19th century, then materials (cotton net, threads, hooks, frames), mounting the net, and step-by-step tambouring movements. Later sections cover zig-zag, drawback and knot stitches, design and transferring patterns to net, a series of diagrammed decorative filling stitches, and ideas for projects. Includes photographs of finished pieces and updated notes added in 1984 and for the 1988 revised edition.
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