Vintage Lace with Mrs. Beeton eBook

PieceWork is pleased to bring you the lace content from Beeton’s Book of Needlework as an eBook. All of the material presented here is reproduced exactly as it was printed in the 1870 edition. Vintage Lace with Mrs. Beeton includes the material related to point lace. The section with general point lace stitch instructions clearly illustrates a variety of techniques and the tools used to execute them.

Inside you'll find:

• Point de Bruxelles
• Point de Venise
• Point d’Espagne
• Point de Grecque
• Point de Valenciennes
• Point d’ Alençon
• Point d’ Angleterre
• Point Turque
• Point de Cordova
• Point de Reprise.
• Point Brabançon
• Point de Fillet
• Point de Tulle.
• Mechlin Lace
• Escalier Lace
• Sorrento Wheels.
• English Wheel.
• Rosette in Point d’Angleterre.
• Rosette for Centre of Point Lace Circles.
• Sorrento Bars.
• D’ Alençon Bars.
• Venetian Bar.
• Bars of Point d’Angleterre.
• Point de Venise Bars (Edged).
• Dotted Point de Venise Bars.
• Picot or Dot or Sorrento Bar.
• Raleigh Bars.
• Point de Bruxelles Edging.
• Sorrento Edging.
• Point de Venise Edging.
• Point d’Angleterre Edging.
• Point d’Espagne Edging.
• Antwerp Edge.
• Star in Point Lace.
• Medallion in Point Lace.
• Point Lace Border.
• Insertion in Limoges Lace.
• Point Lace Border for Handkerchief.
• Star-centre for Toilette Cushion in Point Lace.
• Cravat End in Point Lace.
• Point Lace Edging.
• Design in Point Lace for Collar, Lappet, &c.
• Oval Pattern for Ornamenting Cravats, &c.
• Point Lace Trimming for Square Bodice.
• Point Lace Collar.
• Point Lace Lappet.
• Alphabet in Point Lace.