This page is a collection of resources I have found and utilized before and during my studies at graduate school and continue to add as I come across them. These range from YouTube videos and related blogs to peer-reviewed articles, books, online courses, and more. Please note that throughout my blog, you may see me refer to crochet designers or bloggers not listed here that I think would be great to learn something from. However, I am limiting the ones listed on this page to either thread/lace/Irish crochet specific, have presented collections regularly in fashion shows, or are an established brand/label. Some of these resources are personal purchases and are indicated as having a cost with a $ at the beginning of the citation. While I do have an affiliate disclaimer for my blog, I am not currently affiliated with these resources and do not receive compensation for their recommendation. However, I do stand by their use as they were very helpful in this journey and would still recommend them.

Journals/Articles

Lace/Crochet Related

  1. Bensimon, F. (2019). The emigration of British lacemakers to continental Europe. Continuity and Change, 34, 15-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416019000067
  2. Bourke, J. (1994, October). ‘I was always fond of my pillow’: The handmade lace industry in the United Kingdom, 1870-1914. Rural History, 5(2), 155-169. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793300000650
  3. Burke, M. (2019). Grace Kelly, Philadelphia, and the politics of Irish lace. American Journal of Irish Studies, 15, 31-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26859680
  4. Freedgood, E. (2003, Summer). “Fine fingers”: Victorian handmade lace and utopian consumption. Victorian Studies, 45(4), 625-647. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3829530
  5. Helland, J. (2008, November). ‘Caprices of fashion’: Handmade lace in Ireland 1883-1907. Textile History, 39(2), 193-222. https://doi.org/10.1179/174329508×347089
  6. Helland, J. (2014). Philanthropic fashion: Ireland, 1887-1897. Costume: Journal of the Costume Society, 48(2), 172-192. https://doi.org/10.1179/0590887614Z.00000000049
  7. Helland, J. (2018, May). A gift of lace: Queen Mary’s Coronation Train, 1911. Textile History,49(1), 92-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2017.1380971
  8. James, K. (2006). Handicraft, mass manufacture and rural female labour: Industrial work in North-West Ireland, 1890-1914. Rural History 17(1), 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793305001597
  9. Karp, C. (2018). Defining crochet. Textile History 49(2), 208-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2018.1491689
  10. Kriegel, L. (2008). Lace. Victorian Review, 34(1), 67-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41220401
  11. Maurya, A., & Singh, S. (2017). Promoting export of crochet laces from India: Role of Expert Promotion Council of Handicrafts. FIIB Business Review, 6(4), 20-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2455-2658.2017.00003.X
  12. McPhelim, D. (2019). The story of Clones lace. History Ireland, 27(5), 6-7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26853106
  13. Yugang, C., & Ting, S. (2018). 手工钩编毛衫的款式结构创新设计 [Innovative design and structure of the hand-crocheted sweater]. Wool Textile Journal, 46(4), 37-40. https://doi.org/10.19333/j.mfkj.2017060090404

Blog/Entrepreneur Related

  1. Church, E. M., & Oakley, R. L. (2018). Etsy and the long-tail: How microenterprises use hyper-differentiation in online handicraft marketplaces. Electronic Commerce Research, 18(4), 883-898. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-018-9300-4
  2. Drummond, C., O’Toole, T., & McGrath, H. (2019). Digital engagement strategies and tactics in social media marketing. European Journal of Marketing, 54(6), 1247-1280. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-02-2019-0183
  3. Gilbert, J.A., Clark, D., & Roy, D.P. (2016). Blogging: What’s all the fuss? S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, 81(4), 4-15. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/docview/1891317884/fulltextPDF/778C0FB485C47D2PQ
  4. Griffey, J. (2014). Daily blogging for a year: A “lean” pathway to launching a web-based business. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 3(2), 39-50. https://artivate.org/artivate/article/view/28
  5. Katre, A. (2020). Self-directed learning on the runway to crafts entrepreneurship: Achieving product-market fit through learning cycles with self-management and self-control. Artivate, 9(2), 45-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.34053/artivate.9.2.119
  6. Laurell, C. (2017). When bloggers become designers: On the role of professions in a fashion system undergoing change. Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry, 9(3), 310-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/17569370.2017.1358420
  7. Luckman, S. (Mar 2013). The aura of the analogue in a digital age: Women’s crafts, creative markets and home-based labour after Etsy. Cultural Studies Review, 19(1), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v19i1.2585
  8. Mohr, I. (2016). Determinants of blog success. Journal of Applied Business & Economics, 18(1), 25-31. http://m.www.na-businesspress.com/JABE/MohrI_Web18_1_.pdf
  9. Pedroni, M. (2015). “Stumbling on the heels of my blog”: Career, forms of capital, and strategies in the (sub)field of fashion blogging. Fashion Theory, 19(2), 179-200. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174115X14168357992355
  10. Wut, T.-M., Chan, W.-T, & Lee, S.W. (2021). Unconventional entrepreneurship: Women handicraft entrepreneurs in a market-driven economy. Sustainability, 13(3), 7261. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137261

Other

  1. Bhaduri, G., & Stanforth, N. (2016). Evaluation of absolute luxury: Effect of cues, consumers’ need for uniqueness, product involvement and product knowledge on expected price. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 20(4), 471-486. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-12-2015-0095
  2. Bowe, N. (1990). The Irish arts and crafts movement (1886-1925). Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 172-185. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20492642
  3. Burke, M. (2018). The cottage, the castle, and the couture cloak: ‘Traditional’ Irish fabrics and ‘modern’ Irish fashion in America, c. 1952-1969. Journal of Design History, 31(4), 364-382. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epy020
  4. Fuchs, C., Schreier, M., & Van Osselaer, S.M.J. (Mar 2015). The handmade effect: What’s love got to do with it? Journal of Marketing, 79, 98-110. https://dx.doi.org/10.1509/jm.14.0018
  5. Kim, J., Lloyd, S., Adebeshin, K., & Kang, J.M. (2019). Decoding fashion advertising symbolism in masstige and luxury brands. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 23(2), 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-04-2018-0047
  6. Ridgway, J. L. (2020). The “use of lines in your clothing will work magic”: Advice to women from 1914 to 1961 on using line to design an ideal body type. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 38(4), 270–284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20905358
  7. Ruggerone, L. (2017). The feeling of being dressed: Affect studies and the clothed body, Fashion Theory, 21(5), 573-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/1362704X.2016.1253302
  8. Volonté, P. (2012). Social and cultural features of fashion design in Milan. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 16(4), 399-432. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174112X13427906403723
  9. Wei, B. (2020). Influence of fashion design methods on psychological preferences of consumers: An analysis based on social psychology theory. Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica, 29(1), 1272-1277. https://doi.org/10.24205/03276716.2020.183

Books

  1. Earnshaw, P. (1991). Lace in fashion: From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (2nd ed.). Gorse Publications.
  2. Earnshaw, P. (1994). The identification of lace (3rd ed.). Shire Publications Ltd.
  3. Kawamura, Y. (2020). Doing research in fashion and dress: An introduction to qualitative methods (2nd ed.). Bloomsbury.
  4. Kraatz, A. (1988). Lace: History and fashion. New York: Rizzoli International Publications.
  5. Lefébure, E., & Cole, A. S. (1889). Embroidery and lace: Their manufacture and history from the remotest antiquity to the present day. London: Grevel.
  6. Pallisner, B. (1984). History of lace (4th ed.) (M. Jourdain & A. Dryden, Eds.). New York: Dover. (Reprinted from History of lace (4th ed.) (M. Jourdain & A. Dryden, Eds.) by B. Pallisner, 1911, New York: Scribner) (Original work published 1865)
  7. Paludan, L. (1995). Crochet: History and technique (J. Olsen & M. Zanders, Trans.). Interweave Press, Inc. (Original work published 1986)
  8. Potter, A. L. (1990). A living mystery: The international art & history of crochet. A.J. Publishing International.

Designers

  1. Bailey Prado. https://www.baileyprado.com/.

Blogs

  1. Irish Historical Textiles. https://irishhistoricaltextiles.wordpress.com/blog/ This blog has not been updated since 2013 and social media accounts related to its author seem to have been deleted. However, this blog has some great informative posts and links to resources related to Irish fabrics, which of course includes Irish laces!

News/Other Print Media

Future add…

YouTube Channels

  1. Julia Tushnicka. https://www.youtube.com/c/JThouse. Ukrainian Thread Crochet Designer/Educator.

Courses

  1. $ Mullet-Bowlsby, S. (n.d.). Crochet Garment Design [Online Course]. Interweave. https://www.interweave.com/product/crochet-garment-design-with-shannon-mullett-bowlsby/ (Paid Product)
  2. $ Whitford, S. (2020). Blog by number signature course: How to start a successful blog [Online Course]. Start a Mom Blog. https://www.startamomblog.com/products (Paid Product)