Introducing Bone Lace - Gilian Dye

Publisher : Cleveden Press (2017)
ISBN : 978-09553222372

Introducing Bone Lace by Gilian Dye
Subtitled - A Beginner's Guide to Working Early Bobbin Lace
​Gilian builds on the work started with her book Elizabethan Lace with this short book.

​This book was designed as a prequel to to a Gilian's series on sixteenth and seventeenth century bobbin lace

• Book 1 - Gold and Silver Edgings
• Book 2 - The Isham Samples and other Linen Edgings
• Book 3 - Surface Decorations in Silk & Metallic Thread
• Book 4 - Insertions & Borders

What works well?

• The key techniques are clearly illustrated with colour diagrams
• There are a number of ideas given of how the lace can be used outside of historical reenactment including minature lace and jewlery.

Anything that we need to take into consideration?

• The lace shown on the front cover was made using patterns from the books in the series 
• This book is currently available from lace suppliers and the publishers