This pattern uses a steel crochet hook size 3 U.S. This shawl is a good project for anyone wanting to learn filet crochet. It has a celtic circle in the back, and a Victorian shawl border. The main part of the shawl is worked back and forth in rows, but the border is worked in rounds. The shape of the shawl is a half of a hexagon, or three triangles put together. I think it would look great with a wedding gown!