This is supposed to represent Ancient Egypt. A pyramid, of course, the blue is the Nile, the rising and setting sun and the sun overhead. Plus an eye of Horus. The footside passive is brown to frame it. The triangular ground is either little pyramids, or reeds (as you prefer!)
Pattern:
Bobbins: 18 pairs (1 pair brown, 3 pairs blue, rest yellow)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
Details:
Torchon ground (grey)
triangle ground (green)
half stitch spider or eye of Horus (pink)
half spider (pink)
12 legged spider (pink)
cloth triangle (red)
half stitch (blue)
single twisted footside (grey)
pseudo footside at top
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
I have done a pseudo footside at the top to give a firm edge. If you prefer, you can ignore this and do a simple start:
Here is a larger scale photo, to see the working:
© Jo Edkins 2024 - return to lace index