Irish Crochet · Lace · Tatting · Millinery
Windsor Press restores needlework and millinery manuals from 1912 to the 1960s — plates rescanned, instructions kept as written, printed at a size you can actually work from.
About Windsor Press
These books were written for people who made things. A 1915 Royal Society lesson book or a Priscilla Irish crochet guide assumed you had thread in your hand and wanted to finish a collar by Sunday. They were cheap, they were used hard, and most of them fell apart.
We find the surviving copies, clean up the plates and diagrams, and put them back into print through Amazon — in paperback, Kindle, and occasionally hardcover. The instructions stay as the original authors wrote them, spelling and all. What changes is the legibility: sharp illustrations, generous margins, and type large enough to follow while you work.
The catalog runs to eight titles so far, weighted toward Irish crochet and lace, with a pair of millinery manuals for anyone who wants to build a hat from the buckram up.
The catalog
Step-by-Step Techniques & 100+ Classic Patterns · Vintage Priscilla Vols. 1–2
Two vintage Priscilla guides in one edition, with 180+ illustrations and step-by-step instruction covering lace collars, motifs, edgings, and heirloom projects.
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Vintage Irish Crochet Patterns for Elegant Doilies and Heirloom Thread Lace
Thirty-five vintage Irish lace patterns chosen for framed textile art, centerpieces, and heirloom gifts — sculptural motifs set against fine thread webbing.
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Two books in one
Two restored classics bound together: Royal Society Crochet Lessons (1915), with fundamentals and projects from a work basket to a child’s dress, alongside Priscilla Irish Crochet No. 2 (1912).
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Includes stitches and lessons
A single-volume guide to authentic Irish crochet, with the original stitch lessons and patterns for lace collars, motifs, edgings, and decorative pieces.
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Vintage instructions and patterns · Vee Powell, edited by Windsor Press
A 1940s manual from the years when everyone wore a hat: supplies and materials, trimming technique, crochet hat patterns, veils, and accessories.
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Vintage millinery instructions
A 1960s reproduction with 39 patterns and more than 350 illustrations for hats, gloves, purses, bags, and veils, sized for women, teens, and children.
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Two Irish crochet books in one
An earlier two-in-one Priscilla edition with 180+ illustrations covering lace collars, medallions, edgings, butterflies, and floral designs.
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Vintage Irish crochet instructions, techniques & designs
A two-in-one vintage Irish crochet edition with 180+ illustrations and a broad pattern collection of lace collars, medallions, and edgings.
Check availability →Prices and availability are set by Amazon and change without notice — the listing is always the final word. Out-of-print titles are left here because used copies still turn up.
Get in touch
Wholesale and library orders, permissions, review copies, or a stitch in a 1912 collar that isn’t behaving — we read everything.
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