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2. Mary Card - Wikipedia

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   At a time when women were full-time homemakers, making crochet lace was an important part of many women's lives in a way that may be hard to understand today. Needlework was an enjoyable, fashionable and socially correct pastime. Women were proud to wear and decorate their homes with the finished items. [25] Mary was more than a remarkable ...

3. Needlework - Wikipedia

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   Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns.

4. Irish lace - Wikipedia

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   They created schools to teach many girls and women how to produce the fine crochet that has come to be known as "Irish lace." [4] Irish crochet and tatting travelled particularly well as the equipment needed was simple, a ball of cotton and a shuttle for tatting and a simple crochet hook and cotton for Irish crochet lace. [5]

5. The 100 Things Bazaar Editors Loved Most in 2024 - AOL

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   Crochet and needlepoint motifs and patterns that looked like sketchbook doodles adorned cushions, tablecloths, and placemats for an effect that was at once homespun and chic. Black Vine Tablecloth ...

6. Crochet - Wikipedia

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   Crochet hooks used for Tunisian crochet are elongated and have a stopper at the end of the handle, while double-ended crochet hooks have a hook on both ends of the handle. Tunisian crochet hooks are shaped without a fat thumb grip and thus can hold many loops on the hook at a time without stretching some to different heights than others (Solovan).

7. Bead crochet - Wikipedia

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   By the 1920s bead crochet technique also made necklace ropes, bracelets, and beaded bags. Bead crochet waned during the 1930s when the Great Depression reduced free time for decorative needlework and as inexpensive manufactured goods became more readily available. Interest in bead crochet has revived somewhat in recent years as a hobbyist pastime.