To Alice and all other spiders, I have for a long time been contemplating doing a piece of overlap lace but to date have never tried it, are there any pitfalls that I need to look out for, help gratefully accepted. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK where I am sitting in an almost empty workroom because we are decorating it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lace@arachne.com> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 2:24 AM Subject: [lace] lace pattern question > Greetings, > > A box of lace books and papers were given to our lace guild from an > estate. I had the assignment to go through it to see what was there. Part > of it had come originally from a second estate so it has remnants from two > lacemakers. > > One thing I turned up was the draft copies of two Torchon patterns. One > seemed ready to test, and was signed and dated. > > The other one ----- that is the problem. It is not signed so I'm not sure > which of the two lacemakers drafted it. However it has a title. This led > me to wonder if it was a pricking draft from a pattern in a book -- before > the days of the copy machine. The title is "Emperor's Crown". It is > Torchon, with the headside made of narrow scalloped fans assembled in > clusters to make a larger scallop. There are four spiders per repeat with > a large center diamond of either roseground or honeycomb surrounded by a > diamond trail of either cloth stitch or half stitch. > > Does this sound like anything you have in an older book - probably in the > 70's or 80's? Being titled like that made me think it could be a copy of > an existing pattern. > > With further study, it seems to have one section that is not drawn in a > do-able manner. Some thread pairs go two directions at once. The pattern > needs minor tweaking to correct this error, which I think I can do without > changing the general composition. This error encourages me to believe that > this might be an original design that was not finished. > > Any suggestion on how to find out about this pattern since the two possible > designers are deceased? > > Alice in Oregon -- where my first overlap lace completion turned out > acceptible but not perfect. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
