This is mundillo, or lace from Panama. Click here for more patterns.
These patterns are large scale, to show where the colours go. Reduce the pattern size, if you wish. There are coloured 'blobs' at the top and bottom of the patterns, showing where which coloured pair starts where (which is very important!) I have put these at both ends, so you can work the pattern either the British way, or the other way round.
Patterns:
Bobbins: 7 pairs (5 white, 2 purple, or 3 white, 1 red, 1 green, 1 yellow, 1 blue)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair
Details:
fan headside (various)
Torchon ground (grey + various)
footside without passives (various)
Winkie pin twisted footside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace. These are both the same pattern, but using different colours. The first pattern has blue passives in the Winkie pin twisted footside. The other blue pair colours the fans, then 'bounces off' the footside edge to reach the next fan.
The second pattern, although essentially the same pattern, uses colour in a far more complex way. In each fan, both the worker pair and the edge pair are coloured, with different colours. The workers colour the fan, naturally. The edge pair are a different colour, and are 'hidden' at the edge. This edge pair arrives at the fan, along the edge, from the previous fan, where it was the worker pair. This straight bit between the fans is really a footside without passives.
The other way that the coloured pairs travel through the pattern is either as part of the Torchon ground or as either the edge pair or the passive pair in the footside. I've described the (proper) footside as Winkie pin twisted footside, but that is not strictly accurate. If the pair coming in is white, then it 'bounces off' the footside in the normal Winkie pin way. If it is coloured, then it swaps surreptitiously with either the passive or the edge pair. It is this swapping over which gets the correct coloured pair to the correct fan. Look at the pattern, and choose the correct pair to go in the correct direction, doing the right thing, or the colours just won't work!
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index