This is mundillo, or lace from Panama. Click here for more patterns.
These patterns are large scale, to show where the colours go. Reduce the pattern size, if you wish. There are coloured 'blobs' at the top and bottom of the patterns, showing where which coloured pair starts where (which is very important!) I have put these at both ends, so you can work the pattern either the British way, or the other way round.
I am sorry - this is a very, very long pattern! I am not sure whether there are two shades of red or not, but I have marked them as if there are.
Patterns:
Bobbins: 18 pairs (14 white, 1 pink, 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 red)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair
Details:
Torchon ground (grey + various)
rose ground (pink)
ground diamond (cyan)
diamond (various)
Winkie pin twisted footside (various)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
As usual, the various colours are hidden in the passives of the Winkie pin twisted footside until required. The solid diamonds have two coloured pairs in each, one which are the worker pair which colour the diamond, and the other is the central passive pair (which is hidden by the worker pair). You would need a closely woven clothwork for this to work, with either a good thick thread, or a smaller pattern.
The ground diamonds have no workers - the pairs from one side cross over the pairs from the other in cloth stitch.
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index