Saturday, June 15, 2019

Bruges crochet: a subtype

This kind uses a shell stitch as the spine instead of a set of dc's. Here is a photo of a piece from a  doily design called Victoriana which I first found in a Dover book. You can see the pattern where it is for sale at vintageknitcrochet.net. I did just a swatch of it to learn how. Maybe I will design something using it that will be nice and fancy. Notice in the first picture how it resembles a bobbin lace net ground.

I have now done a test swatch and can report truthfully that doing it back and forth with a turn at each end and straight braid (see second photo) is dull as heck, and tedious. With some curves and loops it would be more interesting. I will fetch out the old Magic Crochet magazine with the ***** (very difficult) pattern in it and see if it inspires anything.

See last pictures for examples of "real" Bruges crochet. That is even more tedious. I guess it is supposed to look like some kind of tape lace, which itself is supposed to look like something else, some kind of bobbin pattern.


Variant Bruges (open spine, same as above commercial picture) by me.

"Real" Bruges by me. Extremely tedious.



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