Hi Ilske,
Good suggestion, but our problem is the other way around. It’s not the word
lace, it’s that the author uses words associated with weaving, knitting and
embroidery - all very different things - to describe the same thing. So, in
your example, your Spitze is either Strick- or Häkel-
Hello Adele and David,
could it be as it was in Germany still 70 years ago. Works done in very fine
threads, wool or cotton or silk, in what ever sort of handicraft, knitting or
crochet, named lace more exact Strick-spitze, Häkel-spitze. And the author uses
the word lace in such sense?
Ilske
Hi David -
Iâm with you. Weavers have a few techniques they call lace - in which they
create regular patterns of holes in the cloth as they weave it. So there are
weavers who weave lace.
However, thatâs not what Lauren Chater is talking about in her book. I
looked up her publisherâs (Simon
Dear Friends
Last night I bought a book on kindle which has been highly recommended. It's
called "The Lace Weaver" by Lauren Chater.
It'll be a while till I get to it but I'm always a bit wary when the author
calls it weaving. I don't know any lace makers who do.
We'll see
David Downunder in
Hi Liz:
If you’ve done Japanese embroidery and have finished it with wheat paste, then
you will know whether or not the paste will show. It might depend on the colour
of thread you’ve used. Even clear glue will make a noticeable dark spot on the
thread; I don’t think wheat paste will do that.
I usually darn the ends in with silk, after the following knot:
1 right over left and under; right over left and under (ie two wraps here)
2 left over right and under
then sometimes step 3 too: a further right over left and under
Glue can show on silk, because it seems to be absorb even a
I have a question about the best way to secure knots in silk thread?
I have just finished a piece from the "Into a Circle" pattern pack using Bart
and Francis flat silk thread. I have done the sewings and tied a surgeons
knot. I have not cut off the bobbins yet and I can see that some of the
