Anybody Can Mend Lace and Linens

Description

by Elizabeth M. Kurella

A practical workbook that shows and tells anybody willing to thread a needle how to fix vintage lace and linen treasures. Now you can take that damaged crochet tablecloth your grandmother made and give it back to your family as a usable heirloom. Turn damaged flea-market bargains into usable table linens, fix up that filet tablecloth to display in a historic home, rescue a flawed bobbin-lace centerpiece from a flea market. The insights, examples, and needle-and-thread skills shown in detail in this book will teach you how.Basic mending techniques presented in step-by-step detailed photographs

Real life examples of mending cutwork, crochet, needle lace, bobbin lace, filet, crochet, Irish crochet, and more

More than 300 black-and-white photographs

Soft cover

128 pages

8 1/2 x 11 inches

Fully Indexed