Re: [lace] Dye in thread

[Linda Walton]

Alex, thank you for mentioning your problems with green thread.  The 
only time I've had trouble with breaking thread, it was also green. 
Cotton, I think, and not particularly fine; but can't remember any more 
about it as it was a long time ago.

Most of the time I use linen thread - white, although in the softer 
shades rather than the dazzling whites - but this time I had chosen the 
thread to match some hand-made beads I wanted to use.  So I was most 
disappointed in this thread.

It broke very easily, mostly before I'd even got the bobbins wound.  I 
wondered if it had been left in the sun, which I've heard can weaken 
thread, and pulled off quite a lot from the reel, but even the inside 
layers broke easily.  Then I wondered if it was the dye.

Eventually a friend, who uses natural dyeing methods, dyed some linen 
thread to match the beads for me, and it worked up with no trouble at 
all.  This was something like ten years ago, and the lace is still 
strong and healthy, as far as I can tell.

Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.,
where it has been sunny lately, but is getting cold and windy now, and 
we're promised more snow next week, especially next weekend.)


Alex Stillwell wrote:
Actually... I think it's a chemical used to dye the thread. I've had
'dentical-same problem with the same colour/shade in two other "lines"
- -- one other cotton and one linen.

I am sure the 'dye' is the culprit. I was given a set of white tea towels with
coloured stripes, two of each colour. Within a few years the green stripes
were disintegrating; all the other have lasted many more years.

Happy lacemking

Alex

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