📚 The Versatile Filet Crochet Book: Original Designs for Cross-stitch, Beadwork, and More, Featuring Innovative Patterns! Review

This book contains some beautiful drawings by a turn of the century (1900's) artist. This book is not for beginners. The charts today are negative charts but very clear. Excellent reproduction of an old book.

This is the worst copy of the original book I have ever seen. To use it you need to redraw the diagram and fill in the gaps. It's a shame that the original author was such a well-known and easy-to-read template that it fell into shambles.

This is exactly what I was looking for! I'm an older woman and I remember crocheting filet patterns that were pretty and lacy and easily turned into cross stitches. Although this is an old fashioned book (over 100 years old) the patterns (from the charts) are timeless. I want to cross stitch the frame nicely etc. and also add borders around the yoke edges of summer blouses, there are many border designs here that are perfect for that. I have a Kindle version that I can enlarge when flashing on…

This review is solely on the quality of the book and is NOT meant to reflect badly on the seller. This book is a reprint of an old brochure and was presented as such in the description, so I have no problem with that aspect. What was disappointing is that the playback lacks copy quality. The booklet is essentially a collection of crochet patterns presented as charts. The character recognition of the scanned image was missing on about 50% of the brochure pages, resulting in the templates being…