My (limited) understanding is that side-emitting is not used for telecommunications, but as an alternative to neon lights in lighting design. It can colour-change and pulse, and is thicker than end-emitting (3mm up to 14mm, from what I've seen). May be too thick for bobbin-lace, but depends on the scale you want to use. If you can make a wire fence out of bobbin-lace, you should be able to make anything (although I've never made bobbin-lace so what would I know <g>). Just have a go! Using alternative fibres/threads is soooo exciting. I'd like to do a needlelace project (only there wouldn't be any needles involved) using barbed wire. I think I need some leather gloves........
Have a look here: http://www.fibreopticfx.co.uk/Side-Emitting-Cable.html As compared with here: http://www.fibreopticfx.co.uk/End-Emitting-Cable.html Jen in Melbourne - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
