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The Complete Tatting Book
The Complete Tatting Book
Monograph · 18 pages
A Victorian pattern book of tatting designs by Mlle. Riego de la Branchardiere, second edition, published in London. It gives shuttle-and-pin instructions with cotton and pin sizes for a round d'oyley or head-dress, Œillet, Pearl, Gymp and Vandyke edgings, a Corfu lace antimacassar with knotted joining, Greek lace trimming, a Vandyke lappet or cravate, and a beaded Parisian gymp trimming. A closing section explains knotting, the lace wheel and the straight thread. Engravings illustrate the patterns, and the book includes advertisements for the author's other books, Walter Evans & Co. cotton and Rowlands' toiletries.
The Royal Tatting Book
The Royal Tatting Book
Monograph · 28 pages
A Victorian pattern book of written instructions for tatting, published in London in 1867 by Mlle. Riego de la Branchardiere. It gives shuttle-and-pin directions for an antimacassar in raised tatting (the Denmark Antimacassar), an oval d'oyley, and several edgings, borders, an insertion and a beaded guipure trimming, with thread and pin sizes for each. Illustrations of the finished lace accompany the patterns, and an advertisement for Walter Evans & Co. thread appears at the end.

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