Technique and Design of Cluny Lace

First English language edition, first impression.  Translated and enlarged from the original French, first published in 1921, by M Rutgers.  86pp, with many black and white illustrations, figures and diagrams in text.  Glazed illustrated boards.  A little shelf wear to card covers, very slightly indented at the base of the spine.  Small bookseller’s label (The Craft Bookcase, Sawbridgeworth) on the front paste down else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

Cluny lace is a simple, geometric plaited bobbin lace.  This volume explains the basic techniques of making Cluny lace, describing how it is built up, starting with the simple elements and progressing to more advances and complicated forms,  Many illustrations and working diagrams, besides original examples of Cluny Lace with corners enlarged so that their construction can be understood.  Very hard to find title.