Pattern:
Bobbins: 21 pairs and 2 gimps
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
picot
gimp (pink)
Details:
picot and passive headside (grey)
cloth stitch diamond (red)
Bucks Point bead(green)
Bucks Point net (grey)
Kat stitch (blue)
cloth footside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
This is an attempt to decipher a pattern in the Museum of Cambridge. It wasn't marked up at all. The grid looked Bucks Point, so I used that style. The initial confusion happened because the ground next to the footside looked twice the scale of the ground the other side of the diamonds. This was resolved by making the footside ground Kat stitch, with the stitches resting on pins rather than the pin being in the middle of the stitch (and many pins not used). The beads are not quite as I describe them in the link above, as there are more pins than usual. The edge side doesn't matter, as the pair can zigzag from the middle of the bead to the edge and back as many times as you want. Since the edge is wavy, it is like a trail, "hiding" an extra pair between the beads. The other side also needs to "hide" a pair. I did this by putting it next to the gimp, and making the gimp stitches go over (or under) both gimp and pair. This squashed the gimp and pair together for a couple of stitches. There may be other ways of tackling the problem!
This is different to the original, which was much wider, with beads and Bucks Point net both sides of the diamonds. Pattern 341 is another version.
Here is the original pattern:
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