50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns - Claire Burkhard

Publisher : Batsford Ltd (5 Sept. 1993)
ISBN-10 : 9780713469851
ISBN-13 : 978-0713469851

50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns by Claire Burkhard
Claire runs AtelierMB from Switzerland.

She is a prolific author who had published a number of books.
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This book is one of her best know and certainly most accessible.

A number of the projects use a relatively small number of bobbins, which builds on the techniques used by Claire in her book Lace for Ten Pairs

What works well?

• This book is multilingual: English, German and French
• The book is well illustrated with photos of the lace throughout

Anything that we need to take into consideration?

• A number of the larger patterns are not printed as a full pricking, but rather as a segment which then has to be put together after photocopying.
• This book is currently out of print, but is often available on eBay

What do other people say?
The Lace Gumnuts site has also reviewed this book:
Full of fascinating projects, with the prickings fully drawn and making good working diagrams.  Some of her stuff needs a bit of thinking about, but it all seems to fall into place as you do it.  Mats, edges, motifs, a fan, collars and dress trims, all sorts of great ideas.
A recommended book for anyone’s lace library