As already mentioned, needlelace, in the past, was used most often as decoration for clothes; today it is found on other items as well. In my previous post I showed a circular doily with a needlelace edging. Now I want to show a small lampshade whose bottom edge is decorated with needlelace. The needlelace was made in an inverted pyramid shape (3-2-1). A row of picots borders the outside edges of the pyramids and binds them together. The lampshade has four wide areas and four narrow areas. Two of the wide areas – oppositely arranged – contain heart and tulip motifs, and the other two wide areas contain heart and sunflower motifs. The shapes were filled with different patterns. Same motifs got similar patterns. All heart shapes were filled with openwork filling patterns with a Cable stitch grid. Needle weaving and Rose stitches in different arrangements were worked into the grid. All other shapes in the wide areas were filled with Limet patterns. In the buds, rows of Rose stitches alternate with Satin stitches worked in a stair-step manner. The narrow areas were decorated with six motifs each, arranged from top to bottom. A relatively small piece of fabric was embroidered to make this lampshade. By placing the motifs close together, seventeen different filling patterns could be worked; they appear especially beautiful when the light is switched on. Using linen for the lampshade creates a delightfully warm light. And the needlelace also produces a lovely effect in this illumination; the edging gives the lampshade that certain something. Here you can find a description on how to work such a lampshade.

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Most of the needlelace patterns come from 'The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework' by Thérèse de Dillmont, the illustrations are often un...

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My first piece of Needlelace.

Flower pattern from Nenia Lovesey. Enlarged and worked in DMC Cordonnet #30. Single Brussels, double Brussels, pea stitch, twisted Buttonhole, whipped twisted buttonhole, corded Brussels. See more at: lynxlace.com/Needlelacebylivinglacemakers.html

Needlelace leaf, made on a photo of an actual maple leaf. I used pearl 5 as outline thread and broder cotton #25 as lace thread. Stitches used: corded single Brussels, double Brussels, single Brussels. The openwork line in the dense part is twisted buttonhole. See more at: lynxlace.com/learningneedlelace.html

Here is a piece of needlelace which I did using a drawing from my archive of designs. Again another peacock! They do lend themselves to a lot of interpretation for needlework & lace work! Enjoy!

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With sewing thread this time.

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SUMMER SALE Crocheted YELLOW scarf with handmade multi color oya flowers lace edge. Description from pinterest.com. I searched for this on bing.com/images

An especially beautiful and elaborately embroidered round table cloth is the subject of this post. The Anna Elisabeth Grein design, with its large motifs, provides areas that are perfect for the bestof-the-best traditional filling patterns. The small table cloth has a diameter of 60 cm (excluding the needlelace edging) and was worked on 16–18/cm thread count old handwoven linen. The needlelace edging was made with four-tier scallop pyramids outlined with Bullion Knot picots. Very special to this post is that I photographed the filling patterns before laundering the piece. This makes the details of the stitches extremely easy to see. In the tulip above, a combination of filling pattern No. 447 and Double Back stitches (images 1–12) was worked. Also, inside the circle shape, another already described filling pattern, No. 473, was worked. It is going beyond the scope of a blog post to explain all the filling patterns in detail. So, I shall let the pictures speak for themselves. Enjoy a close and careful look.

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Elizabethan Embroidery, Gold flower petal, hand embroidered, using Elizabethan 'Flying' Needlelace technique. Stitched with Detached Buttonhole (corded).

Lot of about 16 pieces of vintage lace, some almost antique, and some newer. These are needlelace and crochet, small tablecloths / toppers and doilies.These are different patterns and sizes - the largest round is about 36" in diameter, smallest about 6 1/2" in diameter. Most of the rounds are 8" to 15" in diameter.The largest rectangular cloth is about 38" x 36", there's a couple of smaller squares or rectangles here as well.

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