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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.
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
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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