For bobbin lace beginners' patterns, go to  

    http://laceioli.ning.com/photo/albums/bobbin-lace-beginner-patterns

for other bobbin lace patterns on our site,  go to

    http://laceioli.ning.com/photo/albums/free-patterns 

    by Brona Bacilkova      pattern   photo 

    Another by Brona Bacilkova     pattern2 

Sites with many books available for download:

1.    http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/index.html

2.    http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/catalog.htm

Whole books available online for download:

LePompe 1559 (LePompe 1)  http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=IFN-8622058&I=1&M=notice

LePompe 2 Venetianische Musterblaetter aus dem XVI Jahrhundert - Le Pompe, Second Book.  1879   File size 1.5 MB PDF 

http://kruzhevosasovo.narod.ru/training/00.htm The author put her entire book online. Each page has a translate button.  Traditional Russian bobbin lace.

Links on this page to 3 entire books of patterns available as a free download.  Patterns are Cluny type, torchon, and continental guipures.  http://artesaniadegalicia.xunta.es/publicaciones/encaixes   hundreds of patterns.  Beware: of the 3, the smallest pdf is 46 mb, the largest 96 mb.

The 2 Tebbs books below are part lace patterns.  A few are for beginners. Most are more complex.  Both are on the ariz.edu site listed above under T.

Tebbs, L.A. The Art of Bobbin Lace, Chapman and Hall, 1907, 105 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Posted May 9, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 6.7 MB PDF

Tebbs, L.A. and Rosa Tebbs. The Art of Bobbin Lace Supplement, Chapman and Hall, 1911, 87 pages. Note: Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish. Posted May 9, 2006. SAMPLE PAGE. CONTENTS. File size 10.3 MB PDF

In #1 look for Dillmont       Dillmont, Thérèse de. Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux IIme Serie [Bobbin Laces, Second Series ]  This is the part about bobbin tape lace.  A brief summary of contents of the 8 parts follows.

     part 1: basic instructions for tape lace with some photos

     part 2: more plates

     part 3: elementary patterns, incl #41

     part 4: patterns #43-46

     part 5: starts with pattern 47  This one is important.  I adapted it & worked sample.

     Part 6: patterns 52-56

     part 7: patterns 57-61

     part 8: patterns 62-66

Dillmont Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux 1re Serie [Bobbin Laces, First Series ]. In 4 parts.  Torchon bobbin lace.  Parts 1 & 2 are photos of the basics, and the French text.  Part 1 is grounds and basics, Part 2 starts with wave and fan motifs. Part 3 is torchon prickings, part 4 is torchon patterns.  Many of these are very simple and suitable for a beginner.

The 2nd batch of LePompe patterns, published 1880s, copyright free.  Has tape lace and plaited lace.    http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/pompe2.pdf 

Mincoff & Marriage, originally published 1907, now copyright-free.  This has an especially good selection of patterns, for Cluny and tape lace.     http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books.html#M 

         Part 1 is history. 

         Part 2 mostly tape/braid lace,+torchon +some plaited  

         Part 3 is Maltese, Cluny, & plaited

Woodward, Mary Eva A Text Book on Cluny and Torchon Laces 1901, Gordon Mackay and Company Limited, 102 pages. Note:downloaded from archive.org Posted March 1, 2012. SAMPLE PAGE. File size 4.8 MB PDF   Has Cluny and torchon patterns.

A needlelacetalk member found some booklets and magazines scanned and posted on picasa. So have valid copyrights and should not have been posted.  But some of the booklets are old enough that their copyrights are expired. Here are links to those albums.

     https://picasaweb.google.com/ladalace6/InternationalSchoolOfArtisticClunyLaces

     https://picasaweb.google.com/ladalace6/MrsTreadwinAntiquePointInHonitonLace (I have doubts about this one: orig publ date 1874. reprint 1994)

Other free bobbin lace patterns online:

    http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/index.htm   (Jo Edkins' site)

    http://lynxlace.com/bobbinlacefreepatterns.html#tapelacepatterns 

    http://www.brandis.com.au/arachne/downloads/index.html 

    http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/downloads/downloads.html 

    http://www.carolgallego.com/ludakozlova.html 

    http://www.carolgallego.com/bookmarks.html   3 torchon bookmark patterns

    http://www.carolgallego.com/neckline1.html  Hinojosa pattern for neckline lace.

    http://brandis.com.au/arachne/2012bookmarks/

    http://www.lokk.nl/gratispatronen/gratis_patroon.php 

    http://lace.lacefairy.com/Lace/Gallery/LacePatterns.html

    http://kloskant.com/uk/index-uk.html Look under Patterns and Drawing

    http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/archivepatterns.htm 

    http://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/newprick.htm

    http://www.r70.nl/?file=kop11.php 

    http://kloskant.com/uk/guipure-insertion.html 

    http://www.ann-wild.de/LacePrickings.html  

    http://apinnick.wordpress.com/category/crafts/bobbin-lace/  torchon mat.

    http://www.deutscher-kloeppelverband.de/pdfs/veranstaltungen/kloeppelbrief-abenberg.pdf     bobbin lace flower

    http://howdidyoumakethis.com/storage/2012/braidsandknots/bobbinlace02/curvedlacegrid.jpg    curved torchon ground pattern

  http://lynxlace.com/collarF19.html Bobbin lace floral collar pattern by Lorelei Halley, for Honiton or Duchesse technique, enlarged scale.  No photo, just the pattern.

  http://www.kantkring-hunebed.nl/patronen_index.html  butterflies and pendants

  http://babiciny.napady.net/rubriky/podvinky-ke-stazeni-zdarma 

  http://netklubherdulky.napady.net/rubriky/archiv-podvinku 

  http://www.palickovani.eu/galerie/ukazky-podvinku  use the translate button

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/april torchon with zigzag trail

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/mei tape lace butterfly

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/juni torchon round mat

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/juli part lace dolphin

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/augustus part lace seal

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/september Flanders

  http://www.r70.nl/?file=patroon-van-de-maand-2010/november Flanders bookmark

  http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/5438017/post303396831/   Russian tape lace

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for tatting patterns, go to

    http://laceioli.ning.com/group/tatting/page/tatting-patterns-online 

When we acquire patterns for other kinds of lace, we will list their albums here also.