Best of Handwoven: Atwater-Bronson Lace eBook

This lace technique book is so much more than a project book! In it, you’ll learn about block profile drafts and how to design your own lace patterns, whether you are using simple pick-up or many shafts. You’ll discover special warping, weaving, and finishing techniques to use with linen, lace’s most elegant partner. You’ll find out how to design and weave “turned” lace and discover the difference between Swedish lace and Atwater-Bronson lace. You can start with a sampler and then move through the projects; each one will add a new tool to your lace-weave design kit.

Here's just a taste of what you'll find inside:

• Learn about block profile drafts and how to design your own lace patterns, whether you are using simple pick-up or many shafts.
• Discover special warping, weaving, and finishing techniques to use with linen, lace’s most elegant partner.
• Find out how to design and weave “turned” lace and discover the difference between Swedish lace and Atwater-Bronson lace.

You can start with a sampler and then move through the projects; each one will add a new tool to your lace-weave design kit.

CONTENTS

• A Glossary of Laces for Weavers by Barbara Liebler [4-8 shafts]
• An Introduction to Atwater-Bronson Lace by Jean Scorgie [4 shafts]
• An Atwater-Bronson-Lace Sampler by Virginia West [4 shafts]
• Profile Drafting: Getting the Big Picture by Sharon Alderman [4-8 shafts]
• Linen and Lace—Perfect Partners by Linda Heinrich [4 shafts]
• Topaz Lights Lap Robe by Barbara Elkins [4 shafts]
• Runner in Atwater-Bronson-Lace Pick-Up by Bob Owen [3 shafts]
• Daisy Chain Runner by Alison Irwin [4-6 shafts]
• Turned Atwater-Bronson Lace by Kathryn Wertenberger [4-8 shafts]
• Learning from Handwoven Magazine by Margaret Gaynes [4 shafts]
• The Swedish-Lace Story by Donna Muller [4 shafts]
• Striped Spring Tablecloth by Ronnine Bohannan [4 shafts]
• Kirschbaum Tablecloth by Julie Lawson [4 shafts]