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.
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| Variant Bruges (open spine, same as above commercial picture) by me. |
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| "Real" Bruges by me. Extremely tedious. |
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.
