Найти книгу: "Favorite Irish Crochet Designs"

Create airy and delicate lace designs for table, bed, and wardrobe using the time-honored technique of Irish crochet. This handsome handicraft, known for its raised floral motifs and intricate background patterns, probably originated in the convents of Ireland, where diligent nuns prepared beautiful ornaments for use in church services. Today, this stunning form of lace-making has been adapted and simplified for dozens of day-to-day uses: decorating curtains, tablecloths, pillows, bedspreads, lingerie, collars, children's clothing, doilies, and more.Rita Weiss, a noted needlework designer and bestselling author, has collected the finest, easily workable examples of Irish crochet from rare American thread company booklets of more than 50 years ago. Step-by-step instructions, stitch and hook charts, metric conversion charts, and 40 clear illustrations allow you to make magnificent accessories in these lovely patterns: My Wild Irish Rose, Popcorn, Rose of Sharon, Cinderella, More Than a Touch of Blarney, Beauty Rose, «Smilin' Through,» Tournament of Roses, Wedding Ring, Dublin Beauty, Irish Springtime, and others. No skills beyond a familiarity with ordinary crochet technique are needed to create these beautiful patterns. In addition, expert tips on blocking and finishing make it certain that your final product will be nothing short of a work of art.With this versatile, inexpensive guide, the beauty of Irish crochet — once thought too difficult to achieve by any but the most experienced needleworkers — is now within reach of even beginning crocheters.

Более 350 кельтских орнаментов в виде схем для вышивки крестом (и других счетных техник рукоделия). Книга просто уникальная для всех любителей кельтского орнамента и любителей рукоделия. Уровень предложенных орнаментов - от простейших "косичек" до сложных "ковровых" рисунков. Короткий пояснительный текст на английском относится, главным образом, к технике вышивки. Все схемы даны в ч/б варианте, клетка очень мелкая но хорошо различимая.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses : with their proper offices, and estimates of the whole... / by William Halfpenny».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings : accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangment and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening / by John B. Papworth».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Rural architecture, or a series of designs for ornamental cottages / by P.F. Robinson».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Castlereagh, in the Irish House of Commons, Wednesday, February 5, 1880 : on offering to the House certain resolutions, proposing and recommending a complete and entire union between Great Britain and Ireland».