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.