Jo Edkins' Bobbin Lace School
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Jo Edkins' Bobbin Lace School |
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| Simple patterns for beginners |
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| Zig-zags & diamonds |
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| Hearts |
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| Spiders and roses |
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| Flowers |
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| Bucks Point |
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| Braided |
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| Garters |
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| Christmas |
 
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| Ribbons |
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| Animals |
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| Celtic knots |
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| Greek keys |
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| Square Mats |
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| Hexagonal Mats |
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| Fan |
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| Triangles for corners |
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| Crosses |
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| Wiggly lace |
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| Mazes |
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| Variable grids |
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| Ideas from existing lace |
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| Exploring stitches (1) |
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| Exploring stitches (2) |
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| Inspired by old lace |
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| Strange materials |
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| Lace equipment | pillow bobbins pricking card pins thread other suppliers |
| How to make lace | preparing the pattern winding bobbins making the lace order to work lace |
| Starting and finishing lace | start pattern number of bobbins start working simple start complicated starts end of the pattern finishing |
| Standard lace stitches | cloth stitch half stitch twist cloth stitch and twist |
| Other lace stitches | picot plait lazy join tally 3 way join honeycomb gimp turning stitch linking lace cross-twist description |
| Longer explanations | picot knotted picots tally gimp |
| Footsides | twisted cloth double twisted triple cloth threading ribbon no footside winkie pin general |
| Torchon headsides | cloth fan half stitch fan other simple fans twisted fan |
| Midlands headsides | plaited nine pin crown trail serpent |
| Bucks Point headsides | cloth fan passives and picots |
| Other headsides | part twisted fan French fan ribbon Maltese simple ribbon hearts rose border |
| Simple Grounds | simple Torchon ground double Torchon ground Bucks Point ground Half stitch ground |
| Other Grounds | rose triangular dot armour net (armure-Binche) honeycomb net Kat stitch gaps star bias other diagonals |
| Solid areas (simple) | diamond cloth diamond half stitch diamond Joining diamonds strip zigzag heart triangle fan bud |
| Solid areas (complex) | vertical edge horizontal edge upwards chevron downwards chevron diamond Gravenmoer ground double ground |
| Spider | working a spider bigger spiders spider ground half spiders |
| Peas and open spiders | simple open spider variant of open spider pea |
| Corners and mats | working a corner designing a corner mats finishing an edge or mat |
| Joins and twists | Twists Joining lace Joining thread |
| Downloads of information | how to make lace lace stitches footsides & headsides grounds and nets diamonds, zigzags, etc. spiders start & finish |
| Lace projects | bookmark card edging/insertion corner mat decoration garter cross fan |
| Types of English Lace | Torchon Downton Bucks Point Midland Honiton |
| Pictures and quotes | early drawings Shakespeare Dutch paintings Cowper later paintings Rudyard Kipling |
| Designing lace |
grids
making pattern for existing lace
developing a pattern
new designs
interactive lace designer |
| Torchon grids | very small small medium large |
| Torchon mat grids | rectangular mat large circle edge small circle large, combined circle large circle mat small circle(1) small circle(2) fan |
| Bucks Point grids | very small small medium large mat |
| Variable grids | Small: horizontal vertical both ways mat Large: horizontal vertical both ways mat |
| Interactive lace designer | Design your own Torchon lace patterns online! |
Click on the word to go to the part of the website which explains the word.
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Adding bobbins Armour net Armure-Binche Australian whole stitch Beads Bias ground Binche Armure Bobbins Bobbins (winding) Books about lace Brides Buds Bucks Point Bucks Point fan Bucks Point ground Chevrons Cinq trous (rose) Cloth stitch Cloth stitch and twist Cloth diamond Cloth fan Cloth footside Contact me Corners Covering a pin Crown headside |
Dense areas Designing lace Diamonds Dot ground Double Torchon ground Double twisted footside Downton Downton whole stitch Fans Finishing lace Finishing mats Five hole Fond a la vierge (rose) Fond de mariage (rose) Footsides French fan Gaps Gimp Grids for designing lace Grounds (simple) Grounds (other) |
Half spider Half stitch Half stitch diamond Half stitch fan Half stitch ground Headsides Hearts Honeycomb net Honeycomb stitch Honiton lace Joining diamonds Joining lace Joining threads Kat stitch Knotted picots Lattice ground Lazy join Leaf Legs Linen stitch Links about lace |
Making lace Maltese headside Mats Midland lace Nine pin headside Net Open spiders Orge (spider) Overhand knot Part twisted fan Passives and picots headside Patterns Peas Petal Picots Picots (knotted) Pins Pins (using) Pillow Plait stitch Plaited headside Pricking card Pricking a pattern |
Raised tally Reef knot Removing bobbins Réseau (net) Ribbon in footside Rose ground Scallop headside Scissors Serpent headside Sewn footside Solid areas Spider Spider ground Square knot Star ground Star mesh Starting lace Strips Suppliers |
Taking out bobbins Tally Toilé (dense) Three-way join Thread Torchon Torchon ground Torchon ground (double) Turning stitch Turning stitch and twist Trail headside Triangular ground Triangles Triple cloth footside Twist Twisted fan Twisted footside Virgin ground Whole stitch Whole stitch (Downton) Winding bobbins Winkie pin Windmill join Zigzags |
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| How to make Bobbin Lace | Jo Edkins | This teaches you to make lace, assuming you are starting from the very beginning. It describes the equipment you need (and cheap substitutes!), and takes you through a lot of stitches and techniques in 22 easy patterns. Only 12 pairs of bobbins required throughout! Click here for patterns used in How to make Bobbin Lace |
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| Bobbin Lace Stitches and Techniques | Jo Edkins | This is a reference book of the basics. It describes stitches, simple and complex grounds, headsides and footsides, and other mysteries such as picots and tallies. It uses LOTS of diagrams, and step by step instructions. | UK | USA |
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| The Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches | Bridget M. Cook and Geraldine Stott | Photos and diagrams explaining different types of lace stitches | UK | USA |
| Pillow Lace and Bobbins | Jeff Hopewell | A booklet showing antique pillows, bobbins and lace equipment - fascinating! | UK | |
| Identification of Lace | by Pat Earnshaw | Descriptions of all different types of lace (not just bobbin) | UK | USA |
| Logarithmic Lace | compiled by Deborah Robinson | Variable grids - an intriguing idea! | UK | USA |
Or enter 'bobbin lace' or a lace type, such as torchon, into the relevant search box below.
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British lace museums:Bucks County Museum in Aylesbury - Bucks PointCowper and Newton Museum near Newport Pagnell - Bucks Point and Bedford lace Bedford Museum with lace making equipment Cecil Higgins Art Gallery in Bedford featuring the Thomas Lester lace collection of Bedford lace Salisbury Museum - Downton lace Athelstan Museum - Malmesbury lace Allhallows Museum in Honiton - Honiton lace Ruskin Museum in Coniston, Cumbria - Ruskin lace (not bobbin lace) Shetland Museum - Shetland lace knitting (not bobbin lace) V&A in London - various lace, not always on display Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge - various lace, not always on display Abington Museum, Northampton - I think this has lace Royal Albert Memorial Museum - I think this has lace Other lace websites:Lace around the world - lots of information about international lace and linksLace for study - photos of lace which you can enlarge to study the detail Different types of British lace from the Lace Guild Lynxlace - includes lace identification IOLI For those who want to learn how to make, identify, design or collect lace A Lace Lover's Diary including descriptions of different styles of lace Guilds for bobbin lace and similar crafts:The Lace GuildThe Lace Society OIDFA (International Bobbin and Needle Lace Organisation) Ring of Tatters Guild of Needle Laces Lace Groups:I'd love to hear of any other British lace groups. I do need a web address - a Facebook page is acceptable (ask some teenager to set one up for you if necessary!) Please contact me at jo.edkins.lace@gwydir.demon.co.uk
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British lace suppliers of equipment
SMP lace from Bucks, England |
