Bobbin Lace in Spain

Antje González

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No doubt that the best place to find good and varied patterns is in books. But here in Spain these are not always easy to find. We can sometimes buy them in shops specialized in handcrafts (only if they have bobbin lace material), sometimes in kiosks, but it is sure you can find them at Lace Meetings. Nevertheless, there are many people that, without wanting to make money of it, design patterns and offer them free on the web. We can download them for personal use, but are not allowed to sell them nor make money with them (which unfortunately sometimes happens). They have a copyright; they are not our property. 

Here I have selected the most interesting web site addresses.

In Spanish

• http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/. This is Carolina's Lace site, and has a very interesting pattern of a doily which belonged to her grandmother, and various easy to make Torchon bookmarks.
  

• http://www.patronspuntes.com/pagina1.htm . This is Joan Cobes' page. He makes patterns with the computer. Apart from selling many patterns, he also has a few free ones.

• Here you can download free the Lace Catalogue edited by the Junta de Galicia (Government of Galicia, Spain), with a selection of typical Galician patterns, made by Concepción Canoura. http://www.xunta.es/conselle/in/industria/WebIndust.nsf/fb89e3a8bb883872c125690500334c2b/2f984943705b31f3c1256fcc004b7c1d?OpenDocument The CATALOGUE is a recopilation of the lace made in the four provinces of
  Galicia (situated on the NW part of Spain), where lace making has a great
  tradition. The lace in Galicia is made with quite thick thread, ranging from number 50
  to 20, even 10. These laces are used as edgings for sheets, tablecloths, doilies, handkerchiefs. 
  
  Quick TRANSLATION of the important things of the catalogue:
  In page 9 you will find find the stitches that are used in Galician bobbin
  lace.
  Nome: name; "sen nome": without name. Many names I don't understand them
  either, as the texts is written in galego, language spoken in Galicia (quite
  similar to portuguese). But I can find out the translation if anyone is
  interested.
  Número de palillos: number of bobbins
  Fío: thread. Algodón branco: white cotton
  Puntos empreados: used stitches
  Grao de dificultade: difficulty. Alto: high; baixo: low
  Aumento de pares: pairs to be added
  Consellos para o traballo: working suggestions
  

• To see pictures of Galician lace, try typing Camariñas in Google.

• This is La Encajera's site, a good Spanish lace magazine. You can also find three free patterns here: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/coast/patronin.htm 

Other languages

• http://www.mielkesfarm.com/fre_bob.htm . Page with links to other pages with free patterrns.

• http://www.easycross.ndirect.co.uk/lace/samples.htm : Free patterns on the web.

• http://www.internationaloldlacers.org : IOLI's web page (with free patterns, clicking on "pattern gallery").

• http://www.kloeppelshop.de/shop/index1.htm : German site. Free old patterns, a new one every month, most of them belonging to the "Ostmark-Kloeppelschaetzen". You need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to be able to read the downloads.

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/index.html#EN : Written in Dutch, German and English. With links to many other sites.

• http://www.kniplerier.dk/ : Danish page. You can find some Tonder here, there are also two free Torchon patterns.