Welcome to Vintage Lace Making
This site offers free online resources (onsite as well as offsite) about vintage lace making. Hope you enjoy the many beautiful facets of lace making as you reference these classic works that never go out of style.
Resources:
Beeton's Book of Needlework, by Isabella Beeton
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework, by Emily Leigh Lowes
- »Old Lace
- »Needlework (Embroidery)
Encyclopedia of Needlework, by Thérèse de Dillmont
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- »Lace Making (Two articles - Lace Making and Pillow Lace)
International Old Lacers
- »3 Bulletins (from September & December, 1977; March 1978)
Jo Edkins' Lace Website -
Learning About Lace, published by the Federation of Lace and Embroidery Employers' Associations (approximate circa 1940's)
- »Learning About Lace (How it is Made and How to Use and Handle It)
Lynxlace -
Needlecraft publications, published by the Manchester School of Embroidery
- »3 Lace Journals (Two Irish Lace and One Point Lace)
