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Sample for beginners.
Sample for beginners.
ZELE LACE - Made at a workshop with Agnes Stevens at The Lace School Zele, in the late 1980's.
'CIRCLES'. This pattern was designed for filling circles.
Chatelaine worked in Madeira gold metallic thread.
Detail of chataleine
This pattern was designed for a student who wanted to learn fillings for Ayrshire work using the very fine threads required, so I reduced the pattern previously designed for 'Circles'.
Preliminary sample worked for my Hollie Point bonnet featured in 'Needlelace Designs & Techniques'.
Completed Hollie Point bonnet worked in 1991
My first piece of Ruskin work made at a workshop held at Westhope College in 1997 under the expert guidance of Elizabeth Prickett. The bottom left hand corner needs to be filled along with completion of the right-hand motif in the central panel!
Detail of central panel. I figured Elizabeth Prickett had taught me sufficient to try my hand at making a tablecloth, so 'onwards and upwards' and 'in at the deep end'!
Panel from the completed tablecloth. Linen was not produced wide enough for my cloth so a central square was worked, with 4 x rectangles and 4 x squares for the corners, all of which were hem stitched and joined together with bullion knots - hundreds of them - resulting in repetitive strain in my right elbow for six months! NEVER AGAIN!
One of the corners of my tablecloth