Filet crochet
Filet crochet is a needlework handicraft using hooks. It is usually
worked from a graph or a symbol diagram. The basic method can achieve
two distinct 'colors' - a solid mesh where three or four double crochet
stitches form a square, and an open mesh of one double crochet, two or
three empty spaces, and a final double crochet. The last stitch of a
solid or open mesh is also the first stitch of the following mesh.
Patterns are created by combining
solid and open meshes, usually
working the design in solid meshes and the background in open meshes.
Filet crochet may also be worked with half-double crochet stitches, a
variant of the double crochet stitch. The half-double stitch is half as
tall, but exactly as wide as the double crochet stitch.
Filet crochet is most often worked in
rows using cotton thread to create
wall hangings and linens. Using fine thread, it is possible to work
intricate patterns such as passages of text and personal names.
As with all other types of crochet, filet can be used with any weight of
thread, cord, ribbon, yarn, or anything else flexible enough to work
with a crochet hook.
Many simple cross-stitch patterns
can be effectively converted to filet crochet
and vice versa by filling the design region with solid block and keeping
the open mesh to the area of no pattern. Filet crochet looks best if
blocked before use to highlight the design.
More than one color can be combined in this crochet to make the
design "stand" out from the background. Using top crochet (where
the crochet is worked as a top stitch over the finished piece) in
contrasting or complementary thread designs can also be made more stark. The oldest crochet filet patterns are found in a German Modelbuch, from 1597 !! printed in Nurmberg.
There are about 100 beautiful crochet and/or cross stitch patterns in this book, lots of borders too.
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these designs re-charted in modern crochet magazines,
even for Norwegian knitting, many of these patterns are from the 16th century ! Interesting crochet patterns; from 1910 - 1920.
We will take a look at some popular publishers and designers of the crochet patterns of this time period.
Designers:
Mary Card was a designer of crochet patterns and pattern books. Her designs continued to appear in Needlecraft magazine into the 1930's. She
designed for Weldon's too.
Anna Valeire was an expert needlework designer and her interests included tatting as well as crochet.
Anne Orr was another talented needlework designer, patterns for crochet as well as cross stitch and embroidery.
The Needlecraft Publishing Company published a series of Priscilla Books with popular needlework techniques including filet crochet, Irish
Crochet and crochet beadwork.
Last but not least; Miss Lambert's crochet sampler from 1844,
Hugo and Cora Kirchmaier, Corticelli, DMC, Niedner, Riego from 1910 - 1920, and later on.
All beautiful cross stitch and crochet filet patterns, many still appreciated by crocheters today.
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retro patterns from the early 1900's.
Crochet items for
infants, young children, women, men, or for the home.
From
the archive and
the antique pattern library, so many beautiful crochet filet patterns, from the old
days.
I have found them for you and added them on this page, I hope you
like them as much as I do.
Many early 1900's retro crochet patterns for creating a
variety of beautiful items.
 hese lovely
retro designs are basically filet crochet patterns.
Crochet with open mesh and solid mesh,
On a filet crochet chart, the solid mesh is usually indicated with a
filled-in square.
A solid mesh in 3-dc filet crochet is made of
3 double crochet for the
first solid mesh of the row but additional solid mesh are made over only
the next 2 stitches (because the last dc of the previous mesh also
counts as the first dc of the mesh now being made).
To make a solid mesh above an open mesh:
When it is not the first mesh of the row, it is made as follows: dc in
the ch-1 sp, dc in next dc
Chart is worked starting at the bottom right; work first row right to
left.
Second row is worked left to right. Continue alternating row directions
in this same manner, following chart.
In the charts; white squares as open mesh and black squares as solid
mesh.
A solid mesh in
4-dc filet crochet is made of
4 double crochet for the
first solid mesh of the row but additional solid mesh are made over only
the next 3 stitches (because the last dc of the previous mesh also
counts as the first dc of the mesh now being made).
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