It's Bull Brand.
Brenda
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Witchy Woman wrote:
At an estate sale I picked up some spools of linen lace thread, but they
weren't
in a box, so I'm not sure what brand they are.
There's a paper
sleeve around one of the spools with a bull's head.? The word
trade
It's Bull Brand.
Brenda
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Witchy Woman wrote:
At an estate sale I picked up some spools of linen lace thread, but they
weren't
in a box, so I'm not sure what brand they are.
There's a paper
sleeve around one of the spools with a bull's head.? The word
trade
At an estate sale I picked up some spools of linen lace thread, but they
weren't
in a box, so I'm not sure what brand they are.
There's a paper
sleeve around one of the spools with a bull's head. The word
trade is to
the left and the work mark is to the right of the picture.
Below it is
Made
Witchy Woman wytchy...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
The number on the spool is 70/2-1/2 BL.
I can't help you with the brand, but 70/2 should be the size (2 plies of weight
70). The rest would refer to half-bleached. Unbleached linen is quite brown,
fully bleached is white, and half-bleached is
Hello Delores
I have a 1950s book The Identification of Textile Fibres which goes
into great detail about microscopic and chemical tests to distinguish
one fibre from another, but unless you have your own laboratory to
hand
If you are just trying to decide between linen and cotton the
Thank you Brenda,
There is no label. The 'cone' is a plastic cyclinder and is not smooth. It
is about 5 inches in diameter and the thread is ecru. It was purchased from
a discount yarn shop in the sixties. I have used it to make samples of
edgings when I first started lace making in the
Delores,
Two other factors can make thread stiff; one is the amount of twist. There
was a cotton thread called Unity that was around when I started making lace
(about 30 years ago) which was *the thread* for Bucks as it was highly twisted
and the lace made with it was *crisp*.
Some threads
hi hallo,
an other small test is fire
just burn a bit
and smell
if it smells like paper it will be cotton or linnen or hemp (could be
hemp if you say it is that old, hemp was sometimes trangly more
available then linnen)
then you do the Brenda magnifying test for making the difference to
long
Could someone tell me how to test a thread to see if it might be linen? I
have a large cone of thread I believe is linen but would like to know for
sure.
thanks!! Delores Miller, Washington, USA
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Hi Ladies, I am starting a piece of Torchon drawn by Genevieve
Leplat-Greiner but she calls for a type of thread that I am not familiar
with. So after being a lurker for so long I'm sure one of you will be able
to set me straight. The thread is 2 little balls Venus If Venus is not
available
Hello Beverly and everyone
In a recent perusal of the how-to book of Schneeberger lace by Lia
Baumeister, I notice she specifies Special Dentelles 80 or Venus
tatting cotton for the patterns. The 2 little balls Venus could be tatting
cotton? Does this help?
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