How to Make Bobbin Lace
Bobbin lace takes less time to make than needle lace. Yet, to make complicated patterns you should know a few stitches. Once you learn the steps below, you can make many more complicated bobbin laces.
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Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Bobbin lace pillow
- Pins
- 4 individual bobbins divided into 2 pairs
- Lace thread
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Thread 2 bobbins with opposite ends of the same piece of string. Take your bobbin, and pull some string through it. Roll it tightly until you are left with only a few inches. Thread these last few inches in the other bobbin. With the new bobbin, wind the string tightly while unwinding the other bobbin. Stop when you've wound half of the string on each bobbin.
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Practice a braid. Take one bobbin pair. Put the middle of your string behind a pin. Make a lace braid by wrapping the bobbin on the right over the one on the left. Whenever you make a braid, make sure it is always wound right over left.
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Practice a half-stitch crossing. Take two bobbin pairs. Put the middle of each string behind two different pins. For each pair, cross the right bobbin over the left bobbin once. Then take the middle left bobbin and weave it to the right. This bobbin should go over the first string and under the second.
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Practice a full-stitch crossing to give your lace a solid look. Take two bobbin pairs. Put the middle of each string behind 2 different pins. In each pair, cross the right bobbin over the left bobbin once. Weave the 2 middle bobbins. The middle left bobbin will go over the string to the right and under the next string on the right. The middle left bobbin will go under the string to the left and over the next string to the left.
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Buy a bobbin lace pricking, or pattern, and use these stitches to make a complete bobbin lace project.
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Comments
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sorry not what I was looking for.
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absolutely appalling instructions.
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This site is so full of erroneous information that it should be taken down. I NEVER rely on eHow for ANYTHING!
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CarolynE
Dec 30, 2009
I've been making bobbin lace for many years and these are the worst instructions I have ever seen. Firstly, you dont THREAD bobbins, you wind thread around them. Secondly, you use thread, usually cotton or linen, NOT STRING. If you can follow these instructions, you will make a 4-strand plait - this is not bobbin lace, although plaits are sometimes used in a piece of work. You would not be able to use these instructions to make even the thinnest edging in bobbin lace. Although bobbin lacemaking isn't difficult, and you only work with four (2 pairs) of bobbins for each movement, you move one pair (the workers) on to the next pair to work with 4 again and repeat this across the work. But it isn't as simple as suggested here. You cant move on from step 4 to step 5 as suggested. Whoever wrote this hasn't made bobbin lace.
