This is an attempt (not very good!) to try to reproduce an old Bucks Point lace. It is connected with pattern 183 and pattern 239.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 19 pairs + 4 gimps
Style: Bucks Point (very experimental!)
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
cloth stitch
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
gimp
Details:
footside without passives (grey)
Torchon ground (grey)
honeycomb (green)
bead (green)
trail headside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
I found this photo on a website called "Lace for Study" - a splendid website with lots of high quality photos of old lace. I have done a little Bucks Point, and wanted to try some more, so this looked like a simple one to start. Big mistake!
It looked as if the holes which were the petals of the flower were hexagons. But when I did the design, I couldn't get the beads along the footside to fit the rest of the pattern. As you can see, I have put in a smaller diamond (instead of a hexagon) at one point as a cheat!
A more serious problem is the gimp surrounding the petals. In the original, the gimps surround the petals and nearly touch the centre (which is the same gimp bent round on one side to circle the centre before returning to surround the bottom petals). However, since the petals are hexagons, there is a pair on each side which needs to leave to work a stitch outside the petals before returning to the petals. This isn't a problem, but apparently it has to cross the gimp twice, which requires a stitch that you haven't done yet! I looked at it all ways I could, and I really couldn't understand how they did this... So I left it out! Some of the gimp does surround the petal correctly, but some petals only have a bit of indented gimp. Bother. How did they do that? Well, if you look at pattern 239, you'll see how!
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index