For this year's OIDFA congress in Kobe (Japan) Jana Novak has drawn inspiration from the Far East and has published a booklet with modern designs showing the traditional Chinese signs of the zodiac. Thus there are patterns for the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog and pig. For each pattern there is a coloured photograph, details of the materials used, lace pricking and a working diagram labelled with symbols.
The animals are to be worked in tape lace with irregular fillings. All of them are quick and easy to make in coloured linen thread of thickness 40/2 with only few bobbins. The working diagrams are universally understandable, no particular language skills are necessary. Each of the animals is about the size of a postcard; their use on birthday cards suggests itself.
Text: Japanese, Englisch

 

 Magazine 21x15cm, 16 pages, Text English, German, French, etc.

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 Magazine 21x15cm, 16 pages, Text English.
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 This little book contains patterns for 11 3-dimensional angels and also for a Christmas tree (also 3-D).
Mostly a robe and the wings are to be worked with coloured thread. The first three angels are to be mounted on 7 cm high wooden cones. A variety of glass heads, some of which are coloured, are intended to be used with another 7 angels, rather in the style of "baroque" Christmas tree fairies. Especially the coloured heads and the thread colours used make the angels rather "sweet", but of course that is a matter of taste. Only one single angel requires no glass parts.

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All models all have precise and instructive diagrams.