One of several attempts to make a design of roses. See also pattern 76 and pattern 77.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 22 pairs
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
plait (cyan)
Details:
half stitch fan fan (blue)
Bucks Point net (grey)
honeycomb (green)
cloth stitch solid area (red)
half stitch solid area (blue)
vertical edges to solid area
cloth footside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace. The headside is made up of half stitch fans and cloth shapes (petals), joined with little plaits. They need to be plaits because two pairs leave the end of each shape, and the shapes do not touch.
Since there are no gimps, there is a problem at the edges of the closely worked areas, which are normally outlined by the gimps. The diagonal edges are OK. The problem is with the edges parallel to the footside/headside. Some are next to Bucks Point net, and some to honeycomb. The workers leave the shape at alternate pinholes, twist twice, then join with the ground. If this is honeycomb, then the workers do a cloth stitch with the pair from the honeycomb, twist twice, pin, then cloth and two twists back into the shape. (This is to make the junction at the pin look like a honeycomb stitch.) If it is Bucks Point ground, then the workers do a cloth stitch with the ground pair, then pin. This swaps over the worker pair with the pair from the ground.
The idea of this pattern was that the roses are seen slightly from the side. They are single roses, of course.
© Jo Edkins 2016 - return to lace index