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These patterns are for people who want to learn how to make Torchon bobbin lace. There are different styles and traditions of bobbin lace. Torchon lace is geometric and logical, which makes it a good lace for beginners.
The patterns have numbers on them. These are in the order that I designed the patterns, and have no other significance!
These are not proper pieces of lace. The plait will start you using bobbins. The samples give you practice in some stitches.
2 pairs
Cloth stitch 
6 pairs
Torchon ground 
6 pairs
Footside 
6 pairs
Cloth diamond
10 pairs
Cloth fan headside 
9 pairs
Scallop headside 
11 pairs
Other ways of starting and finishing 
12 pairs
Rose ground
12 pairs
Spider 
12 pairs
Half stitch
9 pairs
Heart 
12 pairs
Triangle 
10 pairs
Winkie pin footside 
12 pairs
Zigzag 
12 pairs
Triangular ground 
12 pairs
Chevrons 
12 pairs
Mat edge 
10 pairs
Mat 
11 pairs
Coloured Torchon ground 
12 (or 8) pairs
Coloured diamonds 1 
12 pairs
Coloured diamonds 2 and 3 
12 pairs
Scallops and diamonds 
12 pairs
Framed rose ground 
10 pairs
Scallops and rose ground 
12 pairs
Rose path 
16 pairs
Five gold rings 
10 pairs
Diamonds and rose ground 
12 pairs
Big spiders
14 pairs
Mixed diamonds
14 pairs
Half and half diamonds
12 pairs
Spiders and different headsides
8 pairs
Strips 
16 pairs
Different types of fan
8 pairs
Rose bed 
14 pairs
Hearts and scallops 
15 pairs
Hearts and diamonds 
13 pairs
Triangles with ordinary footside
14 (or 16) pairs
Zigzags 
14 pairs
Laura's lace
12 pairs
Torchon sampler
12 pairs
Double zigzags 
16 pairs
Two tone zigzags 
16 pairs
Diamonds with holes in 
12 pairs
Lace in a square 
14 pairs
Christmas bauble 
12 pairs
Christmas Angel 
14 pairs
Christmas Star 
10 pairs
Lace in a round 
14 pairs
Intertwined zigzags 
20 pairs
Uneven intertwined zigzags 
21 pairs
Lesley's pattern 
22 pairs
Index to all my bobbin lace patterns
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