How to make Baby Irish CROCHET Lace
P-NK001 Cartier-Bresson – How to make Baby Irish Crochet Lace, 2nd Album
Fine Irish crochet elements, such as picots, small sprigs, sprigs, sprigs, and still more sprigs. After that, lace borders and edgings, with scallops, serpentines, lattices, horseshoe designs, and a narrow edging with small flowers. Insertions, of which one with a very common lattice with an X with a flower at the center, wheels and flowers / stars, a yoke of old fashioned Irish lace, tie ends, a collar, appliques, jabots and a bib. An originally French album that still shows traces of the original language here and there.
Scans donated by Nettie Kraaij, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.
The French title is Guipure Irlandais Fine, which better covers the difference between the 1st (yet to be published) and 2nd album. It must have been a popular title to warrant publishing it in English, but then Irish lace is lovely and relatively easy to crochet, once you have mastered the basics. Irish crochet items now command high prices on auction sites, especially the antique fine-threaded work such as this Baby Irish crochet lace.
Remember that the Antique Pattern Library started as a mailing list about Irish crochet, and look what we’ve grown into!