{"id":3485,"date":"2015-01-26T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inchscaled.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:31:29","slug":"lace-in-miniature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/2015\/01\/lace-in-miniature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and dvds on bobbin lace in miniature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised to one of my Russian speaking readers to write this post about lacemaking in miniature. I have a special tag for it on my site, so you can check the previous posts. And here I decided to show you my favourite books and DVDs that helped me a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I started with Russian tape lace, I bought several pairs of Russian bobbins and some books. The process was quite easy until I had to make some stitches that turned to be difficult to make when all you had was a vague description in a book. I went on Youtube and found out that all the good videos were in English and Spanish! \ud83d\ude42 This was the moment when I decided to start with Torchon lace. Besides I bought two wonderful books by Roz Snowden about lace in miniature and most of the items were made in Torchon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 014 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16183765310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8612\/16183765310_a2b6997769_c.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 014\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My first book was this one:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 002 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16345172326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7318\/16345172326_0dcbe99a6e_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 002\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still think this is the best one on Torchon, the photos are very very clear, so there is no problem with any element.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 003 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16184925789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7366\/16184925789_4d4aa1d474_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 003\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 005 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16185272157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7334\/16185272157_bb93b6a49c_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 005\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I moved one to Bedfordshire lace, though it was a bit early for me, but I learned so much from the videos! Christine Springett is a fantastic artisan, her videos on Bedfordshire and Torchon lace are still my favourite!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 007 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16184927839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8561\/16184927839_ec34887a9e_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 007\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 006 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16371145765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7281\/16371145765_a1e56b6477_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 006\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also bought\u00a0 several second hand books, but they still somewhere on my shelf, most of the patterns are too complicated for me.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 012 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16185274397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7403\/16185274397_76e5f1884a_c.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 012\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 013 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/16183764500\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8649\/16183764500_7a3f47b150_z.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 013\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"inchscaled 016 by Victoria, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vika-m\/15751164123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7325\/15751164123_ba30990023_c.jpg\" alt=\"inchscaled 016\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised to one of my Russian speaking readers to write this post about lacemaking in miniature. I have a special tag for it on my site, so you can check the previous posts. And here I decided to show you my favourite books and DVDs that helped me a lot. I started with Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lace","tag-lace-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3487,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamorozovaminiatures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}