Bedfordshire Lace Design - Louise West

Publisher : Louise West Lace Design (15 May 2017)
ISBN-10 : 0995737002
ISBN-13 : 978-0995737006

Louise West is a working lacemaker involved in restoration, reproduction and commissions.

Her book, Bedfordshire Lace Designs is one of the first new books to be published in the UK this Century.
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It has been warmly received and is seen as the start of a 21st Century revival in lace publishing 

What works well?

• Louise's writing style is excellent and she offers a number of videos on her YouTube Channel to help with Bedfordshire techniques.

Anything that we need to take into consideration?

• Louise offers a number of the prickings in this book as ready pricked
• You can buy the book direct from Louise on her website along with her innovative pre-pricked patterns.  
• Take time to find out about how she crowd funded a laser digital maker.

What do other people say?
This book was reviewed on the gumnuts website:
To quote the forward, the designs in this book have been inspired by a range of sources, some historical, others from plant life, and one from another artist’s paintings.  
The book is not aimed at the complete beginner to lacemaking, but at the lacemaker who has some knowledge of Bedfordshire who wants to work new patterns. 
​The book starts with a simple bookmark with full working instructions, and progresses through a total of 25 various lovely patterns of increasing difficulty until the final patterns are just the pricking and a photo of the worked lace.