Lace is a detailed guide to making lace, including design notes, beautifully drawn patterns, and clear stitch instructions for laces in each of four categories: network, needle laces, bobbin laces and, mixed laces. It is also a carefully researched, magnificently illustrated history of the craft, from the simplest netting used by the earliest human societies to the sumptuous laces of the Renaissance. Lace introduces the reader to the work of some of the best modern textile artists, who are rediscovering lace and experimenting with the techniques of the past. 

MEASUREMENTS
11.25 x 8.75 x 1 inches
2.8 pound

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
Henry Regnery Company, 1974

PAGES
Hardcover, 320 pages

ISBN
809289261