Tanne/cotona is designed as a machine embroidery thread and like all machine
threads it has a Z twist to suit the way sewing machines work. If it causes
problems with the way you personally work BL the solution is to try and find S
twisted thread; most linens, cotton perle, cotton a broder etc.
Thank you all—Arachne is a wonderful forum & today it is Thread University!
They say bought lessons are better than taught lessons & I bought a doozy. I
noticed early on that I didn’t like the texture but plowed ahead anyway. Oh
well, lesson learned & unlikely to be forgotten. This was
> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:43, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
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> After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I
> wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr
> & would appreciate some constructive comments.
Susan,
Looks like you’ve
Hi Susan
'Tatting thread' is DMC Special Dentelles 80 which is identical to Cordonnet
80 which is only a tiny smidgin finer than Cordonnet 70 - so in effect you did
use tatting thread.
The gimp thread in traditional Bedfordshire lace is a softer but round thread,
the difference in thickness to
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Before I can start on my point ground samples, I needed to clear my pillow.
After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace
Before I can start on my point ground samples, I needed to clear my pillow.
After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I
wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr &
would appreciate some constructive comments. The pattern calls
when I learned to make Beds. after the book from Barbara M. Underwood I read in
her book:
Bedfordshire Lace is an East Midlands guipure lace; i.e. it has no net ground,
the design being supported and connected by plaits and brides. It was derived
indirectly from Italian bobbin laces, but more
Thank you Nancy, Jane & Lorelei for setting me straight! And for keeping me
from making a major error at the library. Unless there is some scholarly
objection, I think "early plaited lace" could work when referring to English
lace made in the 1500's. The object here is to make a brief
somebody could figure this out and write a PhD thesis in art history. (Not
me. I have had enough of academe.)
Lorelei
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Subject: [lace] Bedfordshire lace
I ran into a disagreement among lace resources regarding
te
17th century through the 18th century." (from Wikipedia "Bedfordshire
lace", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire_lace)
2) "A new style of lace, Bedfordshire, lace emerged, flourished and died
within 50 years [the last half of the 19th C]." (from Steph Peters' A
Hello All! While working on signage for an upcoming lace exhibit at the
library, I ran into a disagreement among lace resources regarding Bedfordshire.
To my eye, all resources are equally credible but there is a three century
difference of opinion. Should Bedfordshire be considered 16th or
Hello fellow arachnids
My copy of Reiko Tamura's Beds book has arrived this morning!!
(Thanks Pat!!!) I will say it's got 30 beautiful Beds yardage
prickings in it, along with black and white photos and a 'flow chart'
of what's happening with the threads!Reiko does state that she
Oops... I forgot to say that didn't I?? The postage was less than
expected as well!
BTW Jacqui, we may come and bop you if you don't think about coming to
our Lace Day a week on Saturday!!! LOL
Sue in East Yorkshire
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I would add that
Hello all
Very manny thanks for all your help regarding my picots and leaves, I
shall keep going!
What a very helpful group this is.
Have a good weekend.
Paula
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Hello all
Your help would be much appreciated: I have only made
Torchon lace and decided to have a go at Bedfordshire.
My first problem
is that all my right hand picots split, the left ones are great what is
causing this please?
Secondly my leaves are turning out like holly
leaves, is it
Vis a vis leaves, I have found that the single greatest few moments of
video ever shot are those showing Christine Springett demonstrating a leaf on
one of her Bedfordshire lace videos. In fact, I worked through all her
Bedfordshire videos and it was the single greatest learning experience
Don't give up on the leaves. I had terrible problems with them and would do
anything to avoid them. Now I'm happy, even if they aren't perfect thanks to
the very helpful friends here. There are several different ways of working
them, and it's a case of finding the method that works for you.
Hello Paula,
My first problem is that all my right hand picots split, the left ones are
great what is
causing this please?
Right hand picots need to be worked as mirror images of left hand ones, I'll
send you some diagrams in a separate email.
Secondly my leaves are turning out like
Could anyone please pass on any tips they may have when making Bedfordshire
lace?
I have begun teaching myself, with the help of some friends and some excellent
books, but I am having a bit of a problem with plaits and picots, in that when
I do a single picot, I sometimes get a little hole under
Hello Dee,
After making the picot and making the first CTC, try pulling from one
bobbin, then from the other... and you will see what happens. When you pull
the correct one the little hole disappears, but when you pull the wrong one,
the hole appears. So, it is a matter of tensioning, and you get
I haven't done a lot of Beds, and not for a while, but I seem to recall that
the picot is wound around the pin differently, depending on which side of the
braid it is on. If you have the little hole sometimes, it may be because
you're winding it around the pin in the wrong direction.
Clay
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Christine Springett teaches picots as follows:
- picot on the left: twist pair 5x - lay outer bobbin loosely around pin
in a clockwise direction and put back in outer position - lay inner
bobbin clockwise around the pin and return to inner position - twist 2x
- now gently pull up both threads
Hello!
I'm just now getting back into lacemaking after taking a ten year
childrearing break. My favorite style of lace is Bedfordshire. I've got
all the books and a few lovely pieces under my belt (before child) I
want to figure out a way to take an in-person workshop or class, but
since I
Mark your calendar for the 2008 IOLI Convention. Yvonne Scheele will be
teaching a Beds class--and she has a new book coming out the first of the year.
Carole
Dublin, OH
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Hi. You're not very far from The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale, California. They sometimes hold Beds
classes and may have more than one person in their
files who teaches it. Or they may have a contact with
a nearby group who is having a class.
The other thing you might check out is the Winter
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Hi. You're not very far from The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale, California. They sometimes hold Beds
classes and may have more than one
Dear Lisa,
The Winter Lace Conference in Costa Mesa, CA will have Holly VanSciver giving a
course in Beds - all levels. She is a marvelous teacher and you will be
well-served by making the trip to CA.
Get in touch with Betty Ward at 1-714-522-8118 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another
contact is
There are some Bedfordshire lace samples for sale on ebay, supposedly from
the 1900s (which I suppose could mean any time until 1999), two of those
shown having corners. I was under the impression that corners were a
relatively new development and that lace was gathered prior to their
Since lacemaking has been around for 500 years,
'relatively new' could be a couple hundred years.
More to the point, the book Les Dentelles Aux Fuseaux
by Dillmont has many corner patterns, and the author
died in 1890.
I can't give an earler reference, but I think corners
came in during the
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There are some Bedfordshire lace samples for sale on ebay, supposedly from
the 1900s (which I suppose could mean any time until 1999), two of those
shown
05, 2007 1:16 AM
Subject: [lace] Bedfordshire lace term
While doing some Google searches recently, I came across the name of the
wife of a migrant to Australia in the early 1800's. She and her husband,
and several children, migrated from Bedfordshire, and her occupation was
given as Str--ais
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While doing some Google searches recently, I came across the name of
the
wife of a migrant to Australia in the early 1800's. She and her
husband,
and several children, migrated
Hi all,
Many thanks to all who sent me contact information for Robin Lewis-Wild, it
was very helpful!
With a large dose of enthusiasm and a very miniscule amout of common sense,
I recently plunged into a big project, the dress cap in Barbara Underwood's
book Traditional Bedfordshire Lace book
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