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Miniature Crocheting and Knitting for Dollhouses by Rosemary Drysdale
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
With the right needles, hooks, yarns, and this book, you can create dozens of exquisite items for your dollhouse that take almost no time at all to complete. Rosemary Drysdale's extensive collection of 40 Lilliputian-size projects contains designs that are easy to execute, require very little yarn, th ...Show more
My First Knitting Book by Hildegarde Deuzo
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
If you want to learn to knit, you only need a ball of yarn, knitting needles, some patience - and this book! It's the ideal introduction to knitting, with easy-to-follow, full-color instructions for more than fifteen projects. Clear, step-by-step explanations of basic techniques make this guide great fo ...Show more
Tatting Doilies and Edgings by Rita Weiss (Editor)
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
Whether you are an experienced tatter or a beginner, this rare collection of patterns gives needleworkers instructions for making over thirty tatted doilies and almost fifty edgings for fine linens, towels, handkerchiefs, collars, placemats, and other items. Included are such lovely items as tatted edgi ...Show more
Tatting Patterns and Designs by Gun Blomqvist; Elwy Persson
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
Here is a distinctive gallery of over 85 beautiful and useful tatted items -- mats, bookmarks, edgings, collars, crowns, medallions, and more -- all ideal for resting and developing the skills of both intermediate and advanced tatters. Created and compiled by two well-known crafts and needlework exper ...Show more
Tatting - Technique and History by Elgiva Nicholls
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
Illustrated guide to the art of making handmade lace by looping and knotting a single cotton thread. History and development of the craft, instructions, patterns, more. 35 drawings. 24 photographs.
The Art of Knitting by Dover Publications Inc. Staff; Butterick Butterick Publishing Co.
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
Comprehensive in scope and elegant in presentation, this classic Victorian-era volume was the first complete how-to guide to knitting. Originally published by Butterick, the company that later produced Vogue Knitting, it constitutes a fantastic historical document as well as an easy-to-follow guide for ...Show more
Traditional Fair Isle Knitting by Sheila McGregor
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
Situated far to the north of the Scottish mainland, the Shetlands are famous for the dampness of their climate and the excellence of their wool -- a pair of distinctions that fostered the development of a vibrant form of patterned knitting. Fair Isle's unusual technique employs two colors in each row; t ...Show more
Traditional Scandinavian Knitting by Sheila McGregor
Category: Craft | Series: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace Ser.
An expert on traditional Scandinavian knitting explains the distinctive craft's origins, its various types, and knitting techniques in this classic guide. Sheila McGregor's in-depth treatment ranges from the regional styles of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to those of the North Atlantic Islands of Faeroe ...Show more