For centuries, French tassels have been an essential decoration adorning the finest furnishings and accessories. This text is intended for anyone with an interest in creative embroidery and home decorating. It provides detailed instructions on tassel-making, unravelling the secrets of the French tassel-making houses so that readers can make tassels that look as professional as the commercially made variety. A unique flip section allows the reader to create a limitless number of designs by mixing...
Catherine Channer's committment to the hand-made lace industry and its workers, and her first hand knowledge of each, are illustrated in her book Lacemaking in the Midlands Past and Present, written in co-operation with her friend Margaret Roberts. Although published 90 years ago, this book has few modern rivals, and is reprinted here for the firt time within a more extensive work by Anne Buck.
Knitting designs with open, airy stitches are more popular than ever. But why suffer through complicated lace patterns when you can get the same look more easily? Iris Schreier, one of knitting's brightest stars, reveals all the simplest techniques and stitches in "Lacy Little Knits". Each of these 25 seductive garments, from a pretty-in-pink Turkish Shawl to an eye-catching turquoise Chevron Halter, features gorgeous lightweight yarns that hint of romance, flirtation and glamour.
Libro Para Colorear Español - Finlandés I Aprender Finlandés Para Niños I Pintura Y Aprendizaje Creativo (Aprender Idiomas, #10)
by Nerdmediaes
Needlepoint lace originated in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. 'Needle Lace in Photographs' is a comprehensive guide to this craft.
This is a new approach to the craft of Honiton lace, presenting 40 new patterns in a visual format - through diagrams, prickings and photographs, explaining how to use the book in 5 languages. Every pattern has also been illustrated with a photograph of the "right" and "wrong" side of the lace, avoiding the usual need to make a mental reversal. There are also diagrams of the working order, the numbering of pairs and pricking. The patterns include both flat and raised work, with every design disp...
Tatting has been around for at least 200 years. Over that time there have been waves of enthusiasm for the craft around the world, each wave building on the interest generated by earlier ones. There have been developments and evolution in style, techniques and processes. Tatting is now practised universally and, as a result, a rich terminology has developed and a whole vocabulary has grown up, leading sometimes to confusion. Tatting vocabulary has also greatly increased recently with the Interne...