Downloadable Book: Guide to Lace and LinensThis is a pdf version of the popular print book Guide to Lace and Linens by lace historian Elizabeth Kurella. This book will give you a simple, yet thorough, system for identify laces based on groundwork and common features. The best one on the market!

how to turn corners

All the designs from the exhibition and the traditional pieces are featured in the book

cloth-stitch diamonds

as it is a form of embroidery on net

Running time: 18 min

3 each of gold and silver and 2 medallions center pieces which you can use for making most of the pieces

Photographs of the original samples side by side with Karen Thompson’s reconstructed samples highlight the beauty and variety of the Ipswich lace

or spangle as it became known

Techniques shown are Cloth Stitch

mayfowers and four-pin rings are explained

we see how all the pieces come together

Students Must Provide: Supply List (pdf)