Hello spiders
A couple of years ago a friend gave me samples of all the Empress Mills 100%
cottons which she had in her stash. The measurements were:
60s (white) 3Z 32 w/cm 60s (ecru) 3Z 31 w/cm
50s (white) 3Z 29 w/cm 50s (ecru) 3Z 27 w/cm
40s (white) 3Z 27 w/cm 40s (ecru) 3Z 26 w/cm
Hi Sherry
Knox was a leading manufacturer of lace thread until sometime mid 20th century,
so if your thread is still in good condition and hasn't dried out and become
week you can use it for bobbinlace. Size 20 measures 18 wraps/cm and between
Perle 8 and Perle 12 in thickness. You need a
Hi Jean
When knitting you can use very thin yarn with (relatively) thick needles to get
a lacier look or thick yarn with (relatively) thin needles to get a dense
texture but when crocheting you do need to match the yarn to the hook size - it
should sit comfortably in the hook without excess
Hi Jean
a blog from someone who had the same questions as I in 2008. Anyone who's
interested in what she found out:
http://patternsalacarte.blogspot.com/2008/09/so-what-is-purse-twist-anyway.html
The close up of the Corticelli label shows that it's 1/2 ounce - 150 yards.
Assuming that it
Hello Jean
Can anyone tell me what purse silk or purse twist is?
Sorry but I don't know what purse silk or purse twist is.
From what I have managed to glean from the web, it appears to be three ply
silk with a high sheen and thicknesses quoted are 300 and 500, or numbers to
that effect.
Yes it is - or more recently (since Sussex has been divided into two counties)
it's in East Sussex.
Brenda
On 4 Sep 2011, at 03:11, Sue Fink wrote:
Surely Hastings is in Sussex (by the sea!!), not Kent!
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I'm not aware of *any* linen thread currently available that is fine enough for
point ground.
Fresia linen (Belgian) size 100/2 is about the finest linen generally available
but at 32/wraps/cm it compares in thickness to ordinary sewing machine Sylko 50
If you want to make fine lace you will
Hi Joepie
When I was there eight years ago for my daughter's wedding the only lace I saw
was the garter I'd made for her. Although the tourist areas were affluent
enough and the hotels well stocked with food there were shortages of just about
everything. ie the hotel's hairdresser didn't
I was one of the naughty members who forgot to renew!
I saw Sue Dane last Sunday (7th August) and she asked if I'd received the full
colour magazine? I hadn't, but the ladies who were demonstrating with her had.
On Monday I phoned The Hollies, they confirmed that my subs were outstanding, a
Hi Sue
The various working angles of different Bucks patterns doesn't make a huge
difference to the size of thread needed. A rule of thumb is that if you make a
winding of 10 wraps it should fit snugly between two adjacent pinholes along
the footedge (or two vertical pinholes within ground)
Hi Sue
If you have one of the later editions of Threads for Lace have a look at the
thread wraps per space - page 8 in Ed5.
The finer the thread the more leeway you have in the number of wraps/cm you
have, but.
for a Bucks (point ground) pattern using a 58 w/cm thread (slightly finer than
The picture at www.needlenthread.com isn't detailed enough to be sure, but
it looks to me to be a form of needle lace; Aemelia Ars, or something similar.
Brenda
On 3 Aug 2011, at 15:52, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
I thought it might be nice if we could return the favor (her 17thC book
Doreen Wright's Bobbin Lacemaking starts with point ground. Also various books
about Honiton, Flanders etc start with the basics of that type of lace.
I know of no book that teaches bobbin lace by starting anywhere than
with what is considered Torchon.
Brenda in Allhallows
Thank you for that Jean.
It lookss very intricate and time consuming to put it all together - makes you
wonder if it would have been quicker to make the motifs by hand!
Brenda
On 19 Jul 2011, at 09:26, Jean Leader wrote:
David has now added some Javascript magic to my web page about the
The link does work! you just have to move on to the third page
Brenda
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Hello
Sorry the link I put in my last message does`nt work. Does anyone know how
to get a direct link to my page please??
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I think that the black sheer by her hand is part of the tail of the sash.
Brenda
On 5 Jul 2011, at 03:01, Susan Reishus wrote:
I'm not so sure the gold lace is on the black sheer.
http://www.vogue.com.au/fashion+shows/galleries/pre+fall+2011+carolina+herrera,11953;
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I looked quickly
Do you mean that you were actually introduced to her?
On 4 Jul 2011, at 03:59, Malvary Cole wrote:
As far as I could see she wasn't wearing it yesterday when I met her.
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Glad to hear that you and all of your belongings are safe. It must have been a
terrible time for you.
Brenda
The Los Alamos townsite was opened at 8AM this morning, and the refugees are
slowly coming back.
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Hi Alex
It was finished - and in the washing machine - yesterday afternoon.
Brenda
I thought I had taken along time. 8 years to make an Bucks point edging and 8
years to make a piece of Honiton for a tray. Congratulations on going back to
a project after so long. Let us know when it is
It's a patchwork quilt that's completed and in the washing machine after 34
years, not a piece of lace!
Brenda
On 27 Jun 2011, at 10:24, Rochelle Sutherland wrote:
Stirrer! I nearly collapsed when I read that!
It was finished - and in the washing machine - yesterday afternoon.
Brenda
It's a patchwork quilt, not a piece of lace!
Brenda
On 27 Jun 2011, at 22:53, Sue wrote:
WASHING MACHINE??? HOWEVER DARE YOU?
Sue M Harvey
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David that's wonderful - no wonder you won the prize. Congratulations.
Do you work 24 hours a day to get so much lace completed? or do you stop
occasionally to sleep?
Brenda
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Brenda in
I'm a close second! There are all sorts of UFOs lurking in my cupboards but
during the last few days I have been getting close to finishing one of them - a
hand pieced patchwork quilt, the top of which which is now assembled and I'm
part way through machine quilting it - but at the expense of
Hi Laura
1: A friend has been given some
Pearsalls Mallard floss. it feels silky, but we
are not sure if it is silk.
I can work out the wpcm, but any info would be
appreciated.
I'm pretty sure that Pearsall's floss will be real silk.
2: I have a
scarf pattern using pagoda silk
for working a small sample
with the thread(s) of choice on a pricking at the same scale to see if the
result is what you like or want.
Brenda
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So long as the winder is
aware of the amount of tension they are putting on the thread, and with
practise, there will be some consistency.
Yes with practice tension on a winding does become more even. I know that I
usually knit or crochet to the stated tension if I'm using the same
Hi Jean
I just use a piece of paper with two parallel lines drawn on it.
The instructions are at:
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/misc/misc.htm
but the photo does really need re-doing as it's not very sharp.
Brenda
In a knitting magazine I bought last week there's an item on wool
Hello Jane
Veronica Sorenson's 'Modern Lace Designs' on page 96.
It was published in 1984 so almost certainly out of print so might cost silly
money on ebay but guild libraries are likely to have a copy.
Brenda
On 27 May 2011, at 01:49, Jane O'Connor wrote:
After spending hours leafing
Here's a link to a very interesting video clip about the making of that dress.
It appears that much of the lace came from Coudrai in France, though I believe
that some of it came from Cluny Lace Co Ltd in Derbyshire, England.
On 18 May 2011, at 04:29, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
Sorry, everyone, that should have gone to the lace Chat list.
Not necessarily because it was about protecting the ends of scissors - which we
all use for every type of lace.
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Hi Jean
I'm sure you will manage it OK. Lots of other people do.
One thing I have found from experience (of professionally inserted needles) is
that if the swabbed area is still damp when the needle goes in it stings a lot
more than if a couple of seconds have been left to allow the skin to
What about if it's only influenced by traditional Carrickmacross lace as per
the Royal School of Needlework's press release about the lace used on a certain
wedding dress for which the designer sourced a series of lace motifs?
Brenda
On 3 May 2011, at 20:43, Nancy Neff wrote:
There
are lace
The lace design was hand-engineered (appliquéd) using the Carrickmacross
lace-making technique, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s. Individual
flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk
tulle
That's a contradiction of terms!
Carrickmacross is fine lawn
The most detailed photo I've been able to find is at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-wedding/8481516/Kate-Middletons-wedding-dress-in-pictures.html?image=7
There's a tiny bit of the cuff showing - and the bit of lace appears to have
corroune rings but it's still not clear enough to
Hi Sue
I have a part spool of a fairly old DMC 6o Cordonnet special
That's in the book - 2S/3Z 24 w/cm
and a Cordonnet
mercer crochet 80 which has the wording Glanzhallelgarn Uncinetto (I think)
but I expect that will be mentioned in Brendas' book.
I haven't seen that but I would expect it to
Dear Spiders
I have just received this from a fashion design student in London. Is there
any one out able/willing to help her? I have pointed out that BL is a time
consuming process which means that any commission will be expensive.
Brenda
Dear Brenda,
After I visited your webpage, I
For my money the best new lace book in recent months (years) is Jane Atkinson's
'Contemporary Lace for You'. I even paid postage to get it before Lace Guild
Convention as I wasn't sure if it would be available there. It was - along
with Jane and some of the lace from the book.
It's not a
Early last year Francis Buschaart told this list that whilst the vast majority
of bamboo thread is regenerated cellulose (ie a form of rayon) there are two
small manufacturers who process bamboo fibres in a similar way to linen; one in
France and one in Japan. Bart Francis purchase sliver
Donna
If you mean Handy Hands Lizbeth size 20 it's in Edition 5 and also in Addendum
4. 2S/3Z 17 wraps/cm.
The manufacturer is Handy Hands and the product is Lizbeth.
This and other 2S/3Z threads are frequently, but informally, called tatting
thread in USA or crochet cotton in UK, but if the
Whilst no doubt the filaments of glass fibre can do no end of damage to the
bloodstream and the lungs, they also wreak havoc on other textiles.
Many years ago MIL had a small pair of glass fibre curtains at her kitchen
window. They got grubby and she put them into the washing machine along
Whilst she undoubtedly would have lost some height as she aged could it also
have been that she was wearing flat shoes in later life? Lower heels would
require a similar reduction if the skirt length were to remain just clear of
the ground, and late 19th century fashion shoes were low heeled.
Hi Jeri
I have a copy of this book, which Barbara sent to me towards the end of last
year (when it was first published) and it is a very in-depth study of a few
commonly used crochet (aka lace) threads. The photos show the different visual
effect of using differently constructed thread for
There's a long article about London foundlings in the March edition of 'Family
History Monthly' and also a lot of information at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/foundling_01.shtml
These little pieces of textile were left with the babies or taken from their
clothing and attached
For a non-lacemaker the description of chain-stitch embroidery on net is
perhaps enough.
However, the chain-stitch is not worked with a needle but with a tambour hook,
similar to a very fine crochet hook, which holds a loop, then passed down
through the next hole in the mesh to the thread
I've always understood that the wheatears (pointed tallies) in Bedfordshire
lace is the fertility symbol and a hankie edged with a Beds pattern which has a
lot of wheatears was traditionally given to a bride to ensure that children
would result from the marriage.
What makes a hankie a
Hi Jeanette
Coton Egyptien nº 80 could mean Egyptian 80/2 or Egyptian 80/3. It's the
difference between 35 wraps/cm and 50 wraps/cm which is quite a lot so you will
need to look at the pattern carefully and measure the dot spacing and/or work a
sample to see which thickness you need. See
I think her description at the bottom of the page is correct:
machine-made lace copying Blonde bobbin lace
which means that the headline description of
vintage bobbin lace is incorrect. Those two descriptions cannot both be
right!
I don't know about USA, but here in UK advertising on the web
I learned to make the sheet bend as a Girl Guide around the same era, and yes
it was always for ropes of unequal thickness, which is why I find it strange
that weavers/lacemakers use it to join two similar threads. I tend to use a
reef knot for lace threads, except when I'm joining onto a
Hi Tess
Filato per Tombolo di Cantu 30 measured 3S-21 w/cm, the same as Bockens 50/3 or
Pella 70/3.
If you want cotton equivalents for Filato per Tombolo di Cantu please have a
look at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/misc/misc.htm
and ignore any of the information put out by Coats
Maybe it's what the lace police use when you break the rules!
In reality I agree that if the size is right it's an old police truncheon and
as the modern ones are sometimes called batons maybe the seller got rather
confused between baton and bobbin - and then if he/she had seen a picture of a
Hi Donna
If you can get hold of a copy of Eeva Liisa Kortelahti's Nyplättyä Pitsiä /
Bobbin Lace - which is no doubt out of print now as it was published in 1981 -
there is a scale pattern for a christening gown which is nearly all straight
lines to make a simple modern dress. The yoke and
Good for you!
Brenda
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I asked the woman to please take the children out of the display area until
they had finished their ice cream and had had a good wash of hands and face.
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Would anyone know how fine the thread for 19th century Point de Rose
or Point de Gaz is?
Nathalie - who one day hope to knit a shawl in cobweb thread, but
fears that won't ever happen.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Brenda Paternoster
paternos...@appleshack.com wrote:
Without a very
Cornely machines do make a very good imitation of hand tambouring (and hand
chain stitch embroidery) but I think that this piece is hand tamboured because
it does appear that the stitches are all made between the meshes of the net and
the stitch sizes vary accordingly. With Cornely embroidery
I do have a Mac and I also have Knipling (the Mac version) but like Jean I just
don't get on with it and it's gathering dust on a shelf. From time to time
I've looked at Jo's Bobbinwork, and had a dabble with EazyDraw but again I
don't get on with them. Lace 2000/Lace R-XP has never been
I daresay it would work with BootCamp too, but I've gone down the Adobe
Illustrator route now and I'm happy with it.
Brenda
On 30 Jan 2011, at 17:30, Janice Blair wrote:
My SonIL spent a day working on my MacBook Pro to make Lace RXP work on it.
He
made it work using X 11 Application
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So what is whole stitch?
If half stitch is CT then logically whole stitch is CTCT which means that
whole stitch and twist is CTCTT. Or is it?!
That's exactly what Alex meant by different terms for the same thing.
On 12 Jan 2011, at 08:20, Jean Nathan wrote:
I either stick to the terms I
Thank you to everyone who submitted quiz answers.
The glitch I panicked about was as I thought, changes on the Orpheus server.
They are in the process of decommissioning their old server and installing two
new ones; my email is now on the new server but the website is still on the old
one
Have a look at this
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/
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Dear All
I hope your Christmas went well.
There has been a technical hitch with the quiz reply form on my Advent calendar
- nothing is coming through to me! As it's exactly the same coding as last
year, just different questions, I suspect that something has changed on the
Orpheus server.
On 20 Dec 2010, at 02:02, Rick and Sharon Whiteley wrote:
My next problem is how to steam all the b*#+%y puddings. I have a 2 quart, 1
quart, and three small puddings from this recipe .. I don't have that many
suitable saucepans! I'm trying the oven method.
Use the microwave! That's what
Dear All
I have received the following email from a lady named Helen. I have written
back to ask if the bobbins are hallmarked silver or just silver colour, and
what the commemorations are.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Brenda
I hope you will forgive the intrusion, but I've seen your
I have received the following email from a lady named Helen. I have written
back to ask if the bobbins are hallmarked silver or just silver colour, and
what the commemorations are.
I've just had a reply from her:
Hallmarkedsilver. Six wives of Henry 8; a couple of Royal births, not sure
It depends on the scale of the pricking you use - Presencia Finca 30 is a lot
finer than DMC Cordonnet 30. Finca 20 would be a nearer alternative to
Cordonnet 30
Handy Hands Lizbeth 20 or Anchor Artiste 20 are both very similar to Cordonnet
30. If a softer thread is acceptable then go for a
Jacquie's comment is so right - although the wraps/cm measurement is very
convenient for comparing thicknesses it doesn't tell you much about how a
thread will work up. The number of plies, the direction (and firmness) of
spin, and of course the type of fibre all contribute to how a thread
. Claire
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Hi Karen
I don't know how you design BL (computer or hand drawn) but with Adobe
Illustrator which I use the circumference of a circular edging is the
measurement around the centre of the edging, the outside edge will be slightly
bigger and the inside edge/footside will be smaller.
If the
Christmas is fast approaching and time for my Advent Calendar again.
When December arrives in your part of the world you will be able to start
opening the pages.
Please have a look at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/adventcalendar/adventcalendar.htm
As before there will be a couple of small
Christmas is fast approaching and time for my Advent Calendar again.
When December arrives in your part of the world you will be able to start
opening the pages.
Please have a look at
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As before there will be a couple of small
Hi Pene
That's a super Christmas decoration.
Am I right in thinking that you completed the bobbin lace and then added the
sequins and sequin waste using a needle and metallic thread?
Brenda
On 10 Nov 2010, at 09:02, pene piip wrote:
Yesterday I finished a piece of lace which was partly an
A few years ago OIDFA published a very detailed study of all the point ground
laces Point Ground Lace; a Comparative Study
From the diagrams of the various types of footsides it appears that Bucks
Point and Malmsbury are alone in having the footside traditionally worked on
the right. Downton
Bev is so very right!
Two hours driving on an open motorway will take you about 140 miles and more if
you exceed the speed limit. Two hours driving on the congested roads might
only get you 50-60 miles on a good day, 15 miles on a bad day, and on a very
bad day you could be sitting in a
The UK membership is £26; the extra £9 is more than accounted for by the cost
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In UK a magazine in its plastic envelope is classed as a large letter weighing
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Superior Threads Masterpiece 50/2 - 2Z 38
it's in Addendum 5
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Brenda
On 5 Nov 2010, at 20:32, bev walker wrote:
Hello Patricia, cc everyone on lace list :)
The first are 39, 46 and 50 respectively.
Aurifil Mako 28/2 is 26
I don't
If you don't have (to hand) the latest edition of Threads for Lace then you
need to look at the Addendum lists for the number of the edition that you do
have plus all the later ones. Even if you have Edition 5 you still need
Addendum 5 to be complete. After that if there is something not
That happens with a lot magazines and journals which are posted in bulk. The
UK magazines get sent at a special rate (which really ought to be called 3rd
class) whilst the overseas ones go by airmail.
Brenda
On 4 Nov 2010, at 18:00, Jean Nathan wrote:
No, Beth, mine hasn't arrived yet
Two ply threads *don't* make particularly crisp lace. If you use a three ply
it will be crisper. The most readily available three ply thread, in white and
a lot of colours, in the same thickness as Brok or Egyptian 36/2 is common old
Sylko 50 - made by Coats, Tootle, Amann It's now just
Another point to consider is the amount of shrinkage when the pins come out.
I know from experience that the coarser the thread and the further apart the
pins are the greater that shrinkage will be and the lace in these these hats is
fairly open. Torchon in mixed yarns worked on a 5mm grid
Hello Sr Claire
These patterns are difficult to give a definitive answer as to the thickness of
thread required because the grid is not regular and the density of pins for the
cloth/half stitch areas is greater than in the ground areas because not all of
the pins have a pair going out into the
Hi Alice
Thanks for the info that she now lists the thread as Pella 70/3 - it confirms
what I had guessed at.
The only think I wouldn't be too keen to do is to substitute a two ply perle
thread for a three ply linen; because it will work up very much softer which is
probably not what is
Hello Sr Claire
It's not a silly question, but there is no definitive answer. Some styles of
lace and some areas work the footside on the left, others work it on the right.
But just think about making an insertion - you have a footside on both sides so
you do need to be able to work it either
Hi Jenny
Thanks for that list - a couple of small corrections.
Acorn Bobbins is the trading name of Eric Sutton
Winslow Bobbins is the trading name of Dennis SIzeland, now retired, the
turning is now done by son-in-law Steve Smith
Brenda
On 2 Oct 2010, at 14:13, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Both
Others, from whom I've bought bobbins in the past include Stephen Pearce who
made lovely ornate bone bobbins, Denis Sizeland, now retired, Winslow Bobbins
being taken over by his son-in-law Steve Smith who turns very similar bobbins
and Keith Crockford of Spinneyhill Lace. Keith Barbara
We have in the past discussed whether lacemaking is art or craft.
For my two penn'th I'll suggest that it is craft when you are working a pattern
designed by someone else, or an adaptation of another pattern, but art when you
have designed and made the lace from scratch as a one-off piece.
was not found!
Your homepage is with my favourites now, must look ther more often :-)
Stephanie (Netherlands)
Op 7 sep 2010, om 23:51 heeft Brenda Paternoster het volgende
geschreven:
At long last I have got around to changing the BL pattern on my
website!
Brenda in Allhallows
At long last I have got around to changing the BL pattern on my website!
The voting was:
Spidermat = 136 votes
Collar = 91 votes
Circular edging = 61 votes
So, spider mat it is. Unfortunately I can't find the actual mat to get a
bigger picture. When it does reappear I will make a better scan.
Thanks Maxine for the info.
The two other lacemakers in NZ that I can think of are Sue Fink and Julie Todd
but I'm not sure of where they are. Does anyone else know?
To let you know that Erica is on the West Coast of the South Island as far
as I know, and although she would have felt the
I too wondered what wire vice thread means, I've never heard of it. Did you
mean using wire versus thread?
Using wire does need a bit of practice. The one bit of wire BL that I made was
a shapeless mess but some people have achieved good results.
As others have said, just Google 'wire lace'
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Oh thank you. I always wonder if people look at my blog.
Add a counter to the page and you'll find out how many people look at it.
There are lots of commercial counters around, but if you go to my homepage, URL
in the signature, scroll
Hello Irene
Have a look at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/knittingyarns.htm
Brenda
On 18 Aug 2010, at 15:42, Whitham, Irene Steve wrote:
Could someone please be so kind and tell me how many wraps per cm, fingering
or sock weight yarn is?
I have a pattern calling for either
From what I understand of the American terms for knitting yarns 'sock yarn and
fingering are similar, if not the same.
I vaguely remember from years ago when my Grandma used to knit socks for my Dad
she used 3 ply wool which was described on the label as 'fingering' but I never
really knew
Hi Tess
A gimp thread (for torchon or point ground) should be at 4-6 times the
thickness of the main thread. To translate using wraps/cm just divide the w/cm
measurement by 2.5.
The only 35/2 linen I've seen is Bockens = 18 w/cm
18 ÷ 2.5 = 4.5 so 4 w/cm or 5 w/cm
The only readily available
Hi Liz
Congratulations!
I've just spent a whopping 59p on sockCalc - for the occasional knitter like me
it seems to be a useful app.
Just one thing - knowing that you are American I guessed that the measurements
would be in inches, but it would be clearer if you stated that, even if you
don't
Is it what we call a 'magic thread' used at places where you know a sewing will
be needed?
It's a loop of thread placed under a thread, then when you get back there to
make the sewing push the bobbin through the loop and pull until the bobbin
thread is looped enough to pass the partner
What will they think of next to describe as a lacemakers' xx
This one looks like the lid of an old school desk!
Another intriguing ?lace? item on eBay No 280531829911.
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That would include the wire fences made with BL techniques and die-cut paper
doilies.
It is very difficult to write a definitive definition of lace which includes
everything which is lace but excludes what some people might say is not lace!
Personally I would include almost everything that's
Is it really ANTIQUE BINCHE BOBBIN LACE SILK HANDKERCHIEF SMALL VEIL
From the not very clear photo to me it looks like Swiss embroidery.
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 00:23, Nancy Neff wrote:
Here's a handkerchief/veil with a lace edging, with the most interesting
crenellation on the interior
If holes are the important part of defining lace what about a (well made)
beginner's practice strip of cloth stitch or Christine Springett's snake?
Brenda
On 30 Jun 2010, at 07:59, Lesley Blackshaw wrote:
Susan Reishus wrote:
I would say:
Holes with textile surround, typically placed
, Brenda
Paternoster paternos...@appleshack.com writes
Is it really ANTIQUE BINCHE BOBBIN LACE SILK HANDKERCHIEF SMALL VEIL
From the not very clear photo to me it looks like Swiss embroidery.
I thought that, looking at the first picture, but if you scroll down to the
other photos that include
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