The Secrets of Successful Irish Crochet Lace

Anyone who can knit can certainly learn to crochet - in many ways crochet is a more easily mastered needlecraft. This book includes the basic crochet stitch techniques. And anyone who can make simple crochet chains and work a double crochet stitch can make 'Baby' Irish Crochet Lace - one of the easiest, as well as one of the daintiest, of the different types of this delightful form of lace. Increase your crocheting skills by mastering trebles of various heights, add the Clones Knot for special effects, and you're equipped to make the finest laces your imaginative talents can create.

Use this book to discover Tessa Lorant's own methods for adapting modern materials and modern techniques to overcome the more laborious aspects of making and finishing Irish Crochet Lace. You will readily create some of the most delightful, individual and absorbing forms of the art of lace making that can be found, and without taking long to learn the skill.

Tessa Lorant began her working life as a computer programmer, then married an author who encouraged her to write. She started out by writing on her hobby of knitting, publishing thirteen books on textile crafts as well as patenting two knitting aids. She is featured in Richard Rutt's seminal A History of Hand Knitting. After her husband died of cancer Tessa wrote, at his request, A Voice at Twilight, writing as Tessa Lorant Warburg. This looks at the experience of living - and dying - with the Big C. Tessa won the Oddfellows Social Concern Book Award for this; the prize was presented at the House of Commons. As family members kept telling her how like her husband the book sounded she thought she could try to use that skill to write fiction. Tessa has now published six suspense novels and a trilogy. She is working on a detective series - Proof Positive - and a book on wildflowers, as well as adapting more Victorian knitting patterns for the 21st Century.