Projects
- How Did They Do That?- Step-by-step photographs and instructions for a technique from times past: Here we examine the double half hitch.
- A Russian Lace Scarf to Knit (Galina A. Khmeleva)- Use the instructions and chart to create your own scarf with its charming bantik (Russian for "bow-tie") motif.
- A Doily to Filet-Crochet- A filet-crocheted doily based on a Mary Card pattern that Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books, made is re-created here.
- The Nicolaides Shuttles & A Ruffled Edging to Tat (Mary Nicolaides)- The author's account of using the tatting shuttles that her grandfather made for her grandmother, and step-by-step instructions for tatting an elegant edging.
- Esther Oldham: Collector of Fans and Lace Extraordinaire (Lynne Zacek Bassett)- Discover the lace collection, now in the collection of the Wellesley (Massachusetts) Historical Society, that Esther Oldham amassed.
- A Lace Fan to Knit & Knitted Lace Fans (Deborah Robinson)- The author has adapted fans as a medium through which to display her work; she offers instructions for creating your own knitted lace fan.
- The Many Lives of Old Lace (Elizabeth Kurella) & A Lace Bridal Purse to Make (Suzanne Rosser)- Lacemakers in the nineteenth century who turned to recycling when they could no longer find work making new lace advertised their services as "transferrers." Learn to "transfer" a corner motif from a damaged lace-edged handkerchief to embellish a purse.
- Lace Socks to Knit (Ann Budd)- These fancy lace socks are worked in a combination of cables and lace-leaf motifs.
- Lacemaking in Ipswich, Massachusetts: An Unlikely Enterprise (Karen H. Thompson)- Samples of bobbin lace made in eighteenth-century Ipswich are preserved among Alexander Hamilton's papers at the Library of Congress; the pricking (pattern) for one and a lace sample made by a former resident of Ipswich are in the Smithsonian Institution.
Item #: P0805
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