Once an art equal to musical genius or masterpiece painting, lace-making has long been loved and appreciated. Even today, when commercially-made lace abounds, handmade lace is still highly prized. Beautiful, intricate and dainty handmade lace is easy with this impressive variety of patterns for crocheters, tatters and knitters -- from beginners lace edgings to large, beautiful doilies.

Both new and experienced hand weavers will find inspiration in this beautiful guide to creating lace. While true laces are laboriously made with needles or bobbins, hand weavers can use a loom to quickly produce lovely lacy fabrics. The loom-controlled textures depend upon groups of threads that work together and do not reveal their full effect until the cloth comes off the loom and is washed. Suitable for self-study or class use, this book offers weavers a sense of design mastery and a wealth of ideas and lace patterns.

Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.