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Heritage Lace Designs - Louise West

17/9/2022

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Publisher : Louise West (Sep 2022)
ISBN-13 : 978-0995737320
Heritage Lace Designs by Louise West
Inspired by the Erewash Museums Archive
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In 2021, Louise West was one of 5 resident artists at the Legacy of Lace Exhibition, held at the Erewash Museum.

The exhibition was a celebration of the machine lace made by the workers of Erewash.

During the 10 weeks of the project, Louise produced 11 designs. From that project has sprung a truly unique and wonderful book.
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Louise has taken these outstanding machine laces and designs and create some beautiful bobbin lace patterns in both Bedfordshire and Buckingham laces, with black & white and full colour imagery through out

Louise provides suggestions and some guidance on how to work these patterns and so, are aimed at the adventurous beginner and above.
What works well?
  • Louise takes you through how she started with the inspiration image and then created the lace design.  This is a unique opportunity to see the creative process
  • Julie Varo's history of Frank Woodward and his involvement in the Nottingham Lace Industry adds an extra depth to this book.
Anything that we need to take into consideration?
  • This book available direct from the author or other lace suppliers.
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Discover: Delapre Abby in Lace - Jackie Poulter

31/1/2021

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Publisher : Jackie Poulter (19 June 2019)
ISBN-10 : 1916136702
ISBN-13 : 978-1916136700
Discover: Delapre Abby in Lace by Jackie Poulter
In the summer of 2019, Delapre Abbey, in Northampton, hosted The Lace Guild's Triennial Exhibition with lace inspired by the Abbey's architecture.

This book is aimed at the intermediate to advanced lacemaker who is familiar with the techniques of torchon, Bedfordshire, Milanese and Bucks Point lacemaking.

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What works well?
  • Including designs by Jennifer MacPherson and Louise West, this book is not just beautiful with photos and designs, but inspiration as to how to interpret your surroundings in lace.
Anything that we need to take into consideration?
  • This book available from Roseground, Louise West or from the author
This book has been reviewed on the lace gumnuts site
The result of a UK Lace Guild Triennial Lace Competition and exhibition in Northampton’s Delapre Abbey.  Several lacemakers met at the Abbey, took photos of various features, and designed laces of all types based on those features.  Types of lace include Torchon, Milanese, Bedfordshire, Bucks Point, Needlelace and tatting, 24 patterns in all.

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Favourite patterns from Fifty Years - Lacemaking by Margaret Tite

25/1/2021

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Publisher : Self Published (2006)
Favourite patterns from Fifty Years of Lacemaking by Margaret Tite
​This book is a collection of many of Margaret Tite's favourite patterns from her lacemaking career.  

Each pricking has an associated black and white photo of the finished piece.
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A number of the finished pieces were worked by Louise West
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What works well?
  • Many of the pickings are accompanied by a few words from Margaret telling something about the pattern such as a memory, a tip on making or just an observation.
Anything that we need to take into consideration?​
  • There are no diagrams for the lace and a knowledge of Bedfordshire lace is assumed
  • This book is out of print
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Bucks Point Lace Workbook - Louise West

11/1/2021

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Publisher : Louise West Lace Design (8 Jun. 2020)
ISBN-10 : 0995737010
ISBN-13 : 978-0995737013
Bucks Point Lace Workbook - Louise West
Subtitle - A Beginners Guide to Techniques through Traditional Patterns

One of the first bucks point tutor books published in over 30 years.
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​Louise has gone back to basics with an instruction book that allows anyone with a knowledge of how to wind a bobbin and can make whole and half stitch to be able to learn bucks point.
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What works well?
  • Spiral bound - makes it easy to keep open as you work with it or take copies of the prickings
  • Clear illustrations throughout; photos of antique prickings, colour diagrams and clear pricking patterns.
  • The text is large, making it clear and easy to read
Anything that we need to take into consideration?
  • Louise has created pre-pricked pattern packs which are available from her online shop.
  • This book is in print and available from either the author or other suppliers
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Bedfordshire Lace Design - Louise West

9/1/2021

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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 
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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.
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    With currently over 400 books and about the same number of individual patterns, I have an enviable library.  So here are some of my books.

    ​You can see all of the titles by opening up the archives or by clicking on the categories which I've used to group by authors, language and lace types.  Want to find a particular book?  Scroll to the top of the page, click on the magnifier glass and type in a title or author.

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