Irish Crochet Lace | Book No. 132 | The Spool Cotton Company

Irish Crochet Lace | Book No. 132 | The Spool Cotton Company

Irish Crochet Lace
Book No. 132
The Spool Cotton Company
Original Copyright 1939

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Patterns Included: 
Two Rosette Motifs, four Shamrock Motifs, Plain Shamrock Motif, Petal Shamrock Motif, Leaf Motif, Triple Leaf Motif, Stem Motif, Stem and Leaf Motif, Flowers and Stem Motif, Plain Branch Motif, Picot Branch Motif, two Flower Motifs, Petals Motif, Large Petal Motif, two Flowerette Motifs, Rose Motif, three Scroll Motifs, nine Dainty Crochet Edgings, four Wider Crochet Edgings, three Edging and Insertion Sets, Sheer Doily, Luncheon Set, Bolero, Purse, Gloves, Tea Cozy, Irish Crochet Chair Set, Irish Crochet Doily, Colleen Collar and Cuffs, Irish Crochet Glove, Five Piece Baby Set.

     Irish crochet lace is fashion's darling! Smart women everywhere are wearing the new smart feminine fashions. Under suits or coats, on blouses, dresses or evening fashions, this lovely lace appears. It is a lace of timeless beauty with a prestige all its own, bringing to clothes or home charm and real distinction.
     This handbook of Irish crochet lace tells its complete story—how to make the forms that distinguish it, the charming wheels, flowers, fans, buds, tendrils and clusters, and how to make the backgrounds from the simple, plain mesh to the more complicated types.
     Unlike ordinary crochet, which is worked in rows, Irish crochet is worked with a distinctive mesh background. The motifs are always made separately, whether the background is worked in around the motifs or, in the more simplified and easier modern version, the motifs are applied to the finished background. Such charming results, too, for the flower-like forms are joined together into patterns with tendrils and stems, making designs of unexpressible daintiness. Worked in threads of exquisite fineness, the lace looks almost like a cobweb that has caught flowers and leaves in its meshes—lovely lace to hand down as an heirloom.