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Honiton Lace Collar in Crochet (1854): vintage crochet pattern
A crochet imitation of Honiton lace: a scalloped border with ring loops, small and large sprigs and shamrock sprays, sewn onto Italian net cut to the shape of a collar. Worked in fine No. 60 crochet cotton; the same pieces may trim a bertha or veil.
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Skill level | Advanced |
| Yarn weight | Lace (#0) |
| Yardage | Not printed. (as printed; yardage not given) |
| Hook | 0.6 mm |
| Gauge | Not printed. |
| Finished size | Not printed; the collar is cut to shape in net and the crochet pieces are grouped on it. |
| Time | about 11 hours |
Materials
- Cotton crochet thread about size 60 (period: crochet cotton No. 60; approximate), white
- Fine cotton net (period: Italian net), cut to the shape of the collar
- Fine sewing needle for running in the ends
- Hook: Start with a 0.6 mm (finer than US steel 14) hook and adjust to suit your thread (original: crochet hook No. 24, eagle card-board gauge; approximate conversion). No gauge is printed.
Yarn Kit & Substitution Options
This pattern calls for 350 yards of weight #0 yarn. Select a suggested yarn to see required skeins and estimated cost:
Caron Simply Soft · 100% Acrylic
315 yds per skein · High-yield yardage, silky no-scratch texture
2 skeins required
approx. $$10.98 total
Abbreviations (US terms)
- chain
- slip stitch
- single crochet
- double crochet
- treble crochet
- stitch
- stitches
- skip
- repeat
- fasten off
Notes before you start
- Source: "Honiton Lace Collar", The Ladies' Complete Guide to Crochet, Fancy Knitting, and Needlework (Mrs. Ann S. Stephens), Dick & Fitzgerald, 1854. Public domain in the USA.
- As printed — materials: Crochet cotton, No. 60; crochet hook, No. 24; eagle card-board gauge.. Gauge: Not given.
- Modernisation note: Stitch names checked against the book's own definitions (pp. 22–23), which describe the same stitches as modern US terms, so they are kept: “ch.” = ch; “sl.” / “slip” = sl st; “sc.” = sc; “dc.” = dc (US, not UK); “tc.” (treble crochet) = tr; “l tc.” / “long tc.” (long treble crochet) = dtr; “miss” = sk. Note that the book's “tc.” is a modern US tr, not a UK treble (US dc).
- Modernisation note: Period wording modernised: “needle” (meaning the hook) → hook; “commence” → begin; “close for a loop”, “close in a round” and “form it into a round” → join into a ring (the book does not name the joining stitch unless it says “slip”); “under” a chain → in the ch-sp; “fasten off” → FO; “alternative” → alternate. Repeat marks (✕, +, *, †, ¶, (a)) are written as parentheses with the book's total count.
- Modernisation note: Printed paragraphs split into one step per row, round or instruction; no stitches, counts, rows or rounds added, removed or reordered.
- Modernisation note: Crochet hook numbers belong to the book's “eagle card-board gauge”, a period bell-type gauge in which higher numbers are finer. The metric and US sizes given are approximate conversions only, and no gauge is printed.
- Modernisation note: Period cotton numbers (Evans's crochet cotton and “boar's-head” cotton) do not match modern thread sizes exactly; the modern thread size is a starting approximation. Choose the thread that suits the hook and gives lace of the right fineness.
- Modernisation note: No yardage or weight of thread is printed for this design, and none is estimated.
- Modernisation note: Check: Row 3 of the border says “1 sc. 3 dc., 1 sc. on 5 ch.” without saying which side of the foundation the ch-5 is on; Row 2 was worked on the other side of the chain.
- Modernisation note: Check: “close in 5th for a loop, leaving a stem of four” (small sprig) and “join in 7th for loop” (shamrock) are read as joining back into that chain counted from the start, so the first chains form the stem.
- Modernisation note: Check: the large sprig directions are transcribed exactly as printed; how the petal loops sit and how the leaf chains are counted are not fully clear from the text. Compare with Fig. 1 of the Part I plate.
- Modernisation note: Check: in the shamrock, “26 ch. slip 11, leaving 14 for stem” leaves one chain unaccounted for, and the last leaf says “a ch. of 14 instead of 12” although no chain of 12 is given earlier.
- Modernisation note: The book gives no layout for the sprigs; it says only that they are to be “tastefully grouped”.
Row progress: 0 of 6 done (0%)
Stitches
0 of 6 done- Chain (book's definition, “ch.”): “A loop of thread made on the hook, and through this the thread is drawn, forming the first chain stitch; draw the thread through this one, and a second is formed.” = ch.Mark row complete
- Slip stitch (book's definition, “sl.”): “Insert the hook in the stitch next to that already on the needle (unless the directions particularly say, miss so many,) and draw the thread at once through both stitches.” = sl st. The book says it serves “to carry the thread from one part to another, without either breaking it off or widening the work.”Mark row complete
- Single crochet (book's definition, “sc.”): “Insert the hook in the chain, and draw the thread through it; this forms a second loop on the hook. Draw the thread through these two by a single movement and the stitch will be completed.” = modern US sc.Mark row complete
- Double crochet (book's definition, “dc.”): “Raise the thread over the hook, so as to pass it round, before inserting the latter in the chain; draw the thread through, and you will find three loops on the hook; bring the cotton through two … finish the stitch by drawing the thread through these.” = modern US dc (not the UK dc).Mark row complete
- Treble crochet (book's definition, “tc.”): as dc, “but as the thread is passed twice round the hook before the insertion of the latter in the chain, there will be four loops on … Bring the thread three times through two loops to finish the stitch.” = modern US tr.Mark row complete
- Repeat marks (book's definition): stitches between two similar marks (✕, +, *, †) “are to be done as many times as directed; thus, ✕ 3 dc. 2 ch. ✕ three times, means 3 dc. 2 ch., 3 dc. 2 ch., 3 dc. 2 ch.” So “twice” or “3 times” is the total number of times the group is worked. Written here as (…) twice, (…) 3 times.Mark row complete
Working on:
Chain (book's definition, “ch.”): “A loop of thread made on the hook, and through this the thread is drawn, forming the first chain stitch; draw the thread through this one, and a second is formed.” = ch.
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Still to come in the full pattern:
- Border
- Small sprigs
- Large sprig: flower
- Large sprig: stem and leaves
- Shamrock
- Hemstitch for the neck
- Finishing
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the Honiton Lace Collar pattern from?
It was published as "Honiton Lace Collar" in The Ladies' Complete Guide to Crochet, Fancy Knitting, and Needlework (Mrs. Ann S. Stephens) by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1854. The publication is in the public domain in the United States; this version is transcribed and modernised by crochetpatterns.io.
What yarn or thread do I need for the Honiton Lace Collar?
Size 60 crochet cotton (approximate). Not printed.
What hook should I use?
Start with a 0.6 mm (finer than US steel 14) hook and adjust to suit your thread (original: crochet hook No. 24, eagle card-board gauge; approximate conversion). No gauge is printed. Gauge: Not printed.
