Spangling the Springett WayRunning time: 18 min Lacemakers in the East Midlands counties of England began to add a ring of glass beads to the tail end of their lace bobbins early in the Nineteenth Century. This gave their bobbins an attractive appearance while at the same time adding weight to the bobbins, helping to keep the threads straight during work. It is a tradition which most English lacemakers still follow today, but attaching the glass beads, or spangle as it became

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worked in sprang interlinking stitch on a background of interlinking doubles grid

The book uses copper wire

Takes a close look at the lives and work of the crochet lace designers of the Victorian era

This sturdy pricker is made of hard wood and sports a pin vice

by Ulrike Voelcker: 196 crossings

held together with a baby soft

We will examine and make the popular waterlily design

Today we enjoy so much Anne-Marie Verbeke’s

14 pairs of bobbins

sharp and blunt needles

now living in New Mexico