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
Hello Sue
Chemical lace is cotton embroidery on acetate fabric, then the whole
lot is steeped in acetone or something similar to dissolve away the
acetate leaving only the embroidery. Discovered in the 1880s I think
so Victorian but slightly late for the 1850s setting of the TV
programme.
Cangratlations Jane and good wishes to everyone. The big bouncy ones
do often come quickly and easily. I hope Crystal likes her birthday
present.
My middle grandchild, Evie, had her birthday on Saturday in between
your two. She was four, and I too got four copies of your message.
Brenda
Hi Shere'e
DMC Cordonnet 80 or DMC Special Dentelles 80 - Bockens 100/2
Brenda
On 14 Jan 2009, at 17:46, Shere'e wrote:
I am at work and don't have access to my books. Can anyone tell me real
quick roughly what size linen thread DMC 80 would be?
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
I have just received the first package from my new Secret Pal - in
Victoria Australia. Thank you!
I haven't decided yet whether to use all the beads for bobbin spangles
or to incorporate the cloisonne (sp?) ones into a necklace and the
green bag is most appropriate - my New Year resolution
And some of those 83 degrees please - we've been down to -7 deg C with
fog to go with it - nasty!
Definitely staying indoors and making lace weather.
Brenda
On 10 Jan 2009, at 01:28, Clay Blackwell wrote:
I was full of pain and compassion for your discomfort and misfortune
with the broken
Thank you to everyone who entered the quiz.
Just about everyone got questions 1-10 right, but no-one guessed
question 11 correctly!
It was actually two pairs of socks; one multi colour stripes and the
other black with multi coloured spots; knee length for my daughter to
wear with her boots.
?
Thanks for the fun calendar,
Pene
Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Thank you to everyone who entered the quiz.
Just about everyone got questions 1-10 right, but no-one guessed
question 11 correctly!
It was actually two pairs of socks; one multi colour stripes and the
other black with multi coloured spots
I buy them all year round as Terry likes one with his packed lunch. It
used to be that Safeway (now Morrison) used to put two parallel lines
on the top and call them striped buns at times other than the few weeks
before Easter. Exactly the same buns otherwise.
Brenda
On 5 Jan 2009, at
Hello Donna
My first question concerns the thread. The pattern calls for Egyptian
Cotton
80/2. As I said though, I'm putting this on linen. Does one usually
mix
fibers for the lace and fabric?
Most people would find it acceptable to put cotton lace onto linen
fabric, but it is a
The lady I watched on a street corner in Belgium was actually making
reverse lace!
She was making a big show of it and tossing her bobbins around but when
I looked closely she was doing:
cross, twist, cross, twist, untwist..
Perhaps she learned BL using a few inches of string!
Brenda
On
Hello Marianne
I am looking for threads that can be substituted for the Tanne
(Cotona) 80.
I don't have either of these, and am wondering if any that I have on
hand
would work, since I want to start the project now, not in 2 or 3
weeks
Egyptian Gassed 80/2 or YLI Heirloom Sewing 70/2.
Oops sorry!!
I should have said
To convert to NeL (English Linen number) *DIVIDE* the CC by 0.36.
Thus 80 CC = 29 Nm 222
On 29 Dec 2008, at 09:29, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the Ne or Nm equivalent would be?
To convert from CC (English cotton count, also sometimes
Jean, my maths equates with yours, those feeding a small army must
surely be balanced by those being fed.
We are going to one daughter tomorrow evening, one on Christmas Day and
the other on Boxing Day so really I need a bit less this week though I
did get some extra soft drinks for the
I've sent uncompressed images of the lace cards to Janice - they are
big files!
Also I would like to ad my thanks to Jenny for putting all the exchange
lace onto the website, and I do hope your sight problems get sorted
properly.
Merry Christmas
Brenda
On 21 Dec 2008, at 23:40, Janice
Hello Ann
It depends which DMC 50 you mean.
DMC Cordonnet 50 is similar thickness to Bouc 50, both are 23 wraps/cm.
DMC Coton a Broder is/was finer at 30 wraps/cm and DMC Broder Machine
50 is finer still at 42 wraps/cm.
Bev has already listed a number of alternatives to Bouc 70; Bockens
on Brenda's site to see todays offering (15th).
My husband wants the 'original recipe'!!
Sue in EY
On 15 Dec 2008, at 10:33, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
and a reminder that there's a link to the Advent calendar on my
homepage
-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing
Just over a week to go now!
My electronic Christmas card to you all is at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/Christmas/2008/card08.htm
and a reminder that there's a link to the Advent calendar on my homepage
Merry Christmas
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
Hi Linda
There are a number of big fan patterns around, or you could enlarge a
smaller one, though coarse lace doesn't usually look good on a fan.
The main thing is that you *MUST* be sure that the lace will fit your
sticks before you start making it. It's not only the diameter of the
Hi Amanda
Thank you for the lovely card which arrived on Saturday - I should have
acknowleged sooner but have had the sickness/diaorrhea bug that my
daughter and grandson had. Feeling a lot better now though.
It's a lovely card with a lace motif of a candle inside a bell,
designed by
on Brenda's site to see todays offering (15th).
My husband wants the 'original recipe'!!
Sue in EY
On 15 Dec 2008, at 10:33, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
and a reminder that there's a link to the Advent calendar on my
homepage
-
To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing
The card and ornament from Trish Fisher has arrived safely, it's a
hanging ornament with lots of beautifully made leaves inside a
hand-crafted wire circle; not the usual bangle. And as a surprise
extra there is a pink and blue patchwork coaster which is beautifully
stitched. I think you
How right you are!
I have several lace and other Christmas ornaments from Christmas
exchanges and I can't remember who some of them are from.
Maybe I should put up a web page with them all an and ask if anyone
recognised their work!
Brenda
On 3 Dec 2008, at 16:17, Janice Blair wrote:
I've just done that web page
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/exchanges.htm
Brenda
On 4 Dec 2008, at 08:52, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
How right you are!
I have several lace and other Christmas ornaments from Christmas
exchanges and I can't remember who some of them are from
The advent calendar lace looks great but why does the page give the
impression that it's already the end of December by saying who won the
quiz?
Sue in EY
On 30 Dec 2008, at 23:15, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Hello everyone
Here in England it's almost December and I've done another Advent
Hello everyone
Here in England it's almost December and I've done another Advent
calendar. Various thoughts, ideas, musings etc on the Christmas theme.
There's a link from my homepage, as in the signature at the bottom.
On 24th December there's a little quiz with a small prize, open until
I needed to 'phone British Gas a couple of days ago and had to speak my
postcode which was recognised and then a question with a 'yes' or 'no'
answer which it didn't recognise. I ended up shouting down the phone
even though I knew it was only a machine at the other end! That's a
Hello Linda
Swedish linen almost certainly means Bockens linen.
Bockens 90 would suit torchon drafted on a 2mm grid (4mm between
footedge pinholes)
Brenda
On 15 Nov 2008, at 20:55, Linda Walton wrote:
The pattern is from Raie Clare's The Dryad Book of Bobbin Lace, the
book from which I
Avital, they are great and so intricate - must take you hours to do.
I started my Christmas shopping today - went to Bluewater, one of the
biggest indoor shopping malls in Europe. I had lunch in Ponti's, next
to The Pier, and overhead are several decorative panels which reminded
me of your
It's the type of thing the Victorians did (is it right to say
Victorians for 19th century Americans?) but I don't think it's BL,
looks more like NL to me.
Brenda
Amazing item on eBay no 120328659264
Antique bobbin lace mourning memorial made of human hair - the hair of
Anne Clerke.
Hello Sheila
You can't post images to Arachne - you have to upload them to a website
somewhere and post the URL link.
Brenda
On 30 Oct 2008, at 16:01, Alan Sheila Brown wrote:
The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link
attachments:
Halloween.jpg
Note: To protect
I have a couple of ivory - yes ivory from legitimate sources - made by
Barry Adams which are 9cm long but of average thickness. I used to
think that they were short because he'd used old piano keys but he said
no, it was because his ex-partner has very small hands and she prefers
the smaller
Sue
If your Bucks grid has a working angle of 58 degrees you can make five
corners for a pentagon shape or if it has a working angle of 60 degrees
six corners will make a hexagon. Otherwise you have to cut and paste
and do all sorts of odd things or design a proper Bucks corner which
takes
isn't it? Or are my early morning
thoughts missing something?
Sue
- Original Message -
From: Brenda Paternoster
To: Sue
Cc: Sue Babbs ; Arachne
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] bucks point grid size
Sue
If your Bucks grid has a working angle of 58 degrees
Most of the edgings are Leavers machine, number 2 is Barmen machine, 6,
8 9 are chemical lace and 10 is Swiss embroidery.
The smallest doiley is machine tape put together by hand, the circular
doiley beside it could be anything, the picture isn't good enough to
tell, the oval doiley is
A while ago I helped Janis Savage and her friend Kim Lieberman work out
a grid for Kim's lace sculpture project and I have just received this
message from Janis.
Hello Brenda,
The exhibition of lace, for which you helped me work out the grid, is
finally on show. You can see the article
I'm very sad to hear that, my condolences to Sheila and family.
Brenda
On 24 Sep 2008, at 22:16, Tess Parrish wrote:
For those many people who know Sheila Brown, she has just emailed me
with the sad news that her husband Alan has just died after quite a
siege with cancer. Some of you may
To me it looks like a fancy knob for a four-poster bed. I wonder where
the other three are!
Brenda
On 22 Sep 2008, at 09:07, Jean Nathan wrote:
Any ideas what this ebay item is? Can't believe it's a lace bobbin.
19TH LARGE LONG SILK IVORI LACE BOBBIN RARE
Item numbber: 180291700210
Hi Bev
Can you get common or garden cotton sylko 50 (Amman/Coats) - or any
other cotton intended for regular machine stitching of seams?
Brenda
On 19 Sep 2008, at 17:02, bev walker wrote:
Hello everyone
...and anyone who does Cantù lace, just a question - what thread(s) do
you use?
I'm
, Cebelia 30, at 20 w. seems
slightly too coarse.
It does pay to sample :)
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Brenda Paternoster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Bev
Can you get common or garden cotton sylko 50 (Amman/Coats) - or any
other
cotton intended for regular machine stitching of seams
As Bev says, 'best' is whatever suits the user's needs, but industry
standard (Mac and PC) is Adobe Illustrator.
The other specialist lace design program, available for both platforms,
is Knipling
http://www.knipling.de/knipling/knipling-kn30en.html
Photoshop isn't really a drawing program,
Terry has something a bit like it cluttering up a cupboard - for
fishing not lacemaking!
It's an old fishing reel attached to the handle part of an old fishing
rod; I think it was used for transferring fishing line from one reel to
another which is why it has a second clamp for attaching a
Thank you all for the nice comments about my threads book, especially
with the recent discussion about mixing threads. For the newcomers to
this group I have to say that it would never have got going without all
the support from Arachnes from around the world.
Like most people I used what I
Hello Sue
Some laces just have to be coloured don't they.
Your pic of Megan reminded me of our Sam. Terry finally took him to
the vet's for the last time on Friday last week. He was 14 and a bit
years old.
Brenda
On 1 Sep 2008, at 09:23, Sue Duckles wrote:
Hi All
I've recently
Those emails are not from legitimate banks - they are spam. No real
bank would ever send you an unsolicited email asking you to verify your
details. Just hit the delete button, and DONT reply.
Brenda
On 1 Sep 2008, at 04:18, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I am very annoyed by some banks asking
Hello Wendy
I am making an edging, the book says to use DMC Cotton Perle 8 with
DMC 80
Cordonnet Special. Well I have the Perle but didn't have any
Cordonnet, so I
have used Venus 70 instead. My problem is that it is very hard work
as they
seem to be fighting each other by that I mean that
Hello Alex
If Jean has really only been using a computer for a couple of months
she's done fantastically well. There's substance to the site, not just
a blog, the layout is clean and the hyperlinks all work. Well done.
Re the pattern; as I could see no 'download' button and no hand
Yaspe (Jaspe) silk from Bart Francis is in Addendum3 and Edition 4,
page 45.
I measured it as 20 w/cm, but it's a slub thread so difficult to get an
accurate measurement.
I have just finished (bank holiday weekend) a torchon edging made with
Filato per Tombolo di Cantu 30 with Yaspe 30/2 for
In UK
16 ounces = 1 pound
14 pounds = 1 stone
but are the UK ounces the same as US ounces?
A UK ounce = 28.3495 grams, so
1 pound = 453.592 grams, and
1 stone = 6350.288 grams or 6.350288 Kg
Brenda
On 22 Aug 2008, at 04:29, Dearl Kniskern wrote:
dear lacers
what is the equivalent for
Hello everyone
This message, and my reply, has just been posted to the Kent Family
History Society discussion group. Does anyone know anything about the
19th century England/France lace trade?
Brenda
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 August
Wendy
There isn't really a right or a wrong direction to wind bobbins, but
you do have to make the hitch correspond to the direction the bobbin is
wound. You should also make sure that all the bobbins on the pillow
are wound the same way or you will get confused when trying to lengthen
Hello Jean
There is still the mail order system where the pin number isn't used;
the vendor has to enter postal address of the cardholder along with the
3 digit security number from the back of the card. That's the system
we use (LEA Adult Ed enrolments) at work even if the card holder is
Hello Diana
You are not the only one to have forgotten - I was having a tidy up
last week and found the renewal form in a pile of papers - and I then
realised that that was why my magazine hadn't arrived!
I put a cheque in the post on Thursday, (along with the library books
that I was
Direct Debit is different to using credit or debit cards - more like a
standing order but the amount paid each month/quarter/year is variable.
It's appropriate for utility bills etc, and better for subscriptions
etc than standing orders which have to be changed each time the subs
change
According to the glossary in Mincoff Marriage Fond à la vierge = rose
stitch. In the body of the book they say that rose stitch is 'violet
stitch' to Germans and 'maiden's grounding' to the French.
Pat Earnshaw's Dictionary of Lace says cinq trous, five hole, fond à la
vierge, virgin ground
Whilst I agree with what Carole says in that it depends on your
purpose, a website doesn't have to be be static, and it can be updated
as often as you wish.
Most people choose blogs because they are easy to use in that you don't
need to learn anything about web design or html, javascript and
Jane,
The only 28/2 linen (that I've seen) is Juul linen, which measured
2S-19 wraps/cm.
Bouc 30 or Fresia 30/2 and Guetermann linen are all very similar, 2S-19
wraps/cm. Knox Falcon 30 and Knox Gimp 20 also measured the same but
they were discontinued many years ago.
I haven't seen
Nel: 50/3 Nm: 30/3
Nel: 66/3 Nm: 40/3
Nel: 80/3 Nm: 50/3
Nel: 100/3 Nm: 60/3
But I'm not sure, if this is the Goldschild linen lace yarn, that you
mean.
Regards
Sandra from Germany (near Munich)
--- Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Do,
7.8.2008:
Von: Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL
Thank you to Jean, Beth, Janet, Diana, Adele, Bev and Claire for your
comments which I have passed on. The general opinion is that the
bobbins are stilletos or awls used for broderie anglais or Ayreshire
work and that the rings were either curtain rings or button forms.
Brenda
I have been
Hello
I have been sent a photo of some lace bobbins and lace rings which
came from two elderly Dutch ladies who said they are ivory. I
personally don't think they are ivory or lace bobbin but would be
interested to know what anyone else thinks they are/were used for.
Please have a look at
I have asked that question and will let you know when I get a reply.
Brenda
On 27 Jul 2008, at 21:03, Sister Claire wrote:
What is their size, Brenda? I can't tell from the picture.
Sr. Claire
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Brenda Paternoster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
I have
Sorry Miriam, I've never heard of SoftRise, but if anyone does know
please tell me too.
Brenda
can anyone tell me what kind of thread SoftRise is and who the
manufacturer is so I can find a catalog on the internet.
What can I substitute for it?
Miriam
who has returned from OIDFA with a
lot
Nalbinding is sort-of related to needle lace and requires a giant
sewing needle with the hole for the thread at the blunt end.
Info about and pics of nalbinding needles at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragnvaeig/2516822688/in/pool-
nalbindingnutters
However, the bobbin which Mark saw has a
Hello Mark
I'm wondering if the bobbin was actually a tool for making 'Proddie
rugs where scraps of fabric were pushed between the threads of a
piece coarse canvas or sacking to make a thick floor covering.
Brenda
At the home of James Madison, Montpelier, outside of the museum was a
Just goes to prove that great minds think alike!
On 16 Jul 2008, at 22:31, Sue Duckles wrote:
And now, I read my mail and find that Brenda has said the same thing!!!
Sue
On 16 Jul 2008, at 22:27, Sue Duckles wrote:
Evening Spiders
Mark, I wonder if it's a bradawl for a proddie or clippie
Hi Debora
Borrow a pair of hands to hold the skeins whilst you wind. The person
holding the skein just needs to allow the yarn to come off one side at
a time. My husband learned that skill as a child, and he's not from a
crafting family, it's not too difficult.
Winding the ball by hand
Provided you wind your bobbins properly so that it doesn't get
untwisted or over twisted in the process, ie roll the bobbin into the
thread rather than wrapping the thread around the bobbin, the thread
will be OK to use for the next project, but only do that if the lengths
are sufficiently
the
bobbins
improperly, against the curve of the thread? It's a real pain having
to
rewind bobbins at frequent intervals, and this happened when I did
Torchon
and it happens now with the Cantu even more.
Sr. Claire
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Brenda Paternoster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Provided you
That means she used Bockens 60/3 for the white and ecru, and Bockens
35/2 (equivalent to 50/3) for the colours.
As Tamara said, if a (fairly recent) pattern states linen thread
without a brand name the chances are it's Bockens linen.
Brenda
On 12 Jul 2008, at 06:23, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Vivienne, correct me if I'm wrong, but La Paletta is the new name for
what used to marketed as Borayon (32 w/cm).
Am I right in thinking that El Molino is the same thread but in
industrial size cones?
Brenda
On 12 Jul 2008, at 14:00, Lynne Cumming wrote:
Vivienne has a nice garter pattern
I watched the video clip with Leonard on Mac without any problems!!
True I'm still in the ark and running MacOSX 10.3 (can't remember which
is which with the big cats!) but I'm getting to the point where I need
to upgrade, with web access being one of the issues. 10.3 would only
recognise the
Hello Sue
I am now at a critical point in our 40th Wedding anniversary napkins
which
lots of you gave me ideas for many months ago. The fabric is ready and
pressed and the lace made (just two more to darn the ends in) and then
I am
set to add lace to fabric. This particular set is a 4 sided
Hello ALice
I've been making leaves in white cotton - White DMC Dentelle 100
Do you mean DMC Special Dentelles 100, or DMC Fil a Dentelles 100?
I've never seen/heard of either.
Or do you mean DMC Cordonnet 100 ?
Years ago I tried painting fabric dye onto white lace - it worked but
left soft
Reckits Blue Bags! NO!
They bring the laundry up looking whiter but it's impossible to
subsequently was hit out and in time it makes the fabric look grey.
When I was a child Mum received quite a lot of sheets etc from Grandma
and they had all been washed many times and whitened with blue
Alex's view seems to concur with most of the replies on this subject -
I certainly agree.
However, I think that this moving towards machine mounting is part of
the changing nature of (bobbin) lacemaking. Traditionally, lace made
for sale was made by one person (or several in the case of
On 24 Jun 2008, at 18:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the end the chairwomen came and said did you have
a good day? We knew we had done the best of any one but it still
dismal, so
we said no it was a disaster. The lady said, well what do you
expect? We
are an older group and don't really
Hi Sue
Gutermann Sulky is a rayon thread - comes in two sizes, 30 and 40; the
30 is similar thickness to Gutermann 100/3 silk, but continuous
filament rather than spun from short lengths of fibre.
http://www.guetermann.com/Content/Guetermann/02__en/
Hello Rhiannon
It's likely to be mercerised. I've had a quick rummage through my
sewing machine threads, some of which are quite old, but can't find
anything which says satinised.
The mercerisation process involves caustic soda which makes the cotton
fibres swell and become stronger and
Hello Rhiannon
Dewhurst, Coats, Tootle, Amman all make/made Sylko which is a pretty
standard sewing machine thread, 3ply, Z twisted. The confusion comes
about because of the various company mergers and take-overs over the
years, but all basically the same thread, and the three shells is, I
Hi Adele
Super explanation.
The specific gravity of the different fibres does have a small effect
on the size of finished thread, but cotton and linen are measured by
different sizes of hank.
With cotton: CC = Cotton Count, occasionally NeC = Number English Cotton
it's the number of 840
Hello Jean
It's presumably because your internet security software blocks pop-ups,
and Ctrl+F5 changes that software's settings. Video clips, (Windows
Media, Real or Quicktime) all play in pop-up windows. I don't think
it's anything to do with JavaScript; that's more for interactive things
I usually hand sew hand made lace to fabric, but I would much rather
see well mounted lace which is machine stitched to the fabric than
badly hand stitched. Do whichever you can achieve the best results
with.
I thought I would post this to start a debate ( maybe the wrong word)
but
Hi Sue
Pipers sell their own silks, they don't stock Guetermann. Piper's 80/3
is the same thickness as Guetermann 100/3.
Any haberdashery shop/department store which has a good range of stock
items is likely to have Guetermann 100/3 as it's the silk equivalent of
cotton Sylko, and is what
Oops sorry, I should have said Piper's spun silk 80/3. Their 80/3
twisted gloss is only one wrap different in thickness, but it's
filamentor reeled silk which is shinier and very slippery to use on
bobbins.
Floss silk is reeled silk but it's not plied and has very little twist
- it's made
Hello Sue
Which size Guetermann silk does Louise Colgan suggest?
If it's the most readily available 100/3 spun silk (ticket S303) then
that is 27 wraps/cm, the same as Venus 70. Special Dentelles 80 is
little bit finer at 30 wraps/cm. The feel of the lace made with Venus
will be different
I'm not a purist with my lace. Guiterman 100/3 is 'sewing thread'
sized thread. I freely mix and match it with my other threads that
came from sewing stores. Medeira is usually found in 30 or 50. One
is a tad bigger and one a tad smaller than the 100/3, but if the
color suits you, use it
As it says - This lace is Genuine Nottingham cotton Leavers Lace.
which is machine made lace.
The picture isn't great, but I'd bet that the right side looks a bit
like woven satin, and it will tend to curl at the edges the way
stocking stitch knitting does.
Brenda
On 10 Jun 2008, at
Dora
That's the difference between south east England and Texas - you have
room to build new roads.
For years now they have been talking about another Thames crossing;
further out from London to take pressure off the Dartford crossing (2 x
2 lane tunnels and a 4 lane bridge). Once built it
You're joking
If you start in the centre of London, say Trafalgar Square, you can
drive for an hour and still be in Central London.
If you take the M25 as being the perimeter of London, you are doing
well if you can get from the M25 to places like Brighton, Canterbury,
Cambridge or
Hello Shirlee
Others have already replied suitable alternatives- Linkatex Goldrush is
the nearest substitute.
Both are chained threads - if you find the end it will unravel like a
long length of crochet chain/single crochet. It's about the thickness
of Perle 5.
Brenda
On 30 May 2008, at
And I doubt if someone whose hands are as arthritic as those would be
able to handle tow bobbins in each hand at the same time!
Brenda
On 31 May 2008, at 09:11, Jean Nathan wrote:
Making Lace Original watercolour of Daniel Powers, described as:
Agnes
I think you may be thinking of the continental method of crossing the
two centre bobbins, two twists oon the left hand pair, cross the middle
two then two twists on the right hand pair but whichever way you handle
the bobbins it's down to tensioning the two outer passives correctly.
Hello everyone
I forwarded Ewa's message to my friend Barbara who also moved to Cyprus
a couple of years ago and here's her reply:
I have just switched on the computer to send you an e-mail regarding
Sandra when I had one from you.
It has been quite a shock to us all here in Cyprus as it
There are pictures of all three types at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/bobbins/specials.html
about half way down the page.
Brenda
Mother and babe, twins, etc have the small bobbins visible inside open
chambers cut in the length of the bobbin. There are two bobbins which
have small
Hello Rhiannon
I recommend looking at these- it has given me some ideas. I especially
like
the last one- can you give a supplier of the Monovic thread?
I don't know of any lace suppliers who carry it, it's sold as invisible
sewing thread in haberdashery shops. The last time I saw it on
I spent much of the very wet and windy bank holiday seeing how many
variations I could work on one small BL pattern and the result is to be
seen at
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/bookmarks/bookmarks.htm
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
-
To
Yes it's bobbin lace - but probably not really vintage - it's the sort
of BL made for export from Asia/China.
Brenda
On 28 May 2008, at 18:12, Patty Dowden wrote:
190224579806
Is it bobbin lace?
Jenny Brandis
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Most assuredly bobbin lace. Quite a mix of
Thanks to all who replied - I too think it's just Antique Thread 230.
Very fine and would need a magnifier to work with!
Brenda
On 23 May 2008, at 18:15, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Patsy asked about the writing on the label of a skein of old lace
thread she bought in the Honiton Lace Shop some
Yes Clay, you are right - it's a nice piece of machine made lace.
Brenda
On 24 May 2008, at 02:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have looked again, and I believe that the next-to-last picture in
the group is definitive.
Clay
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Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
-- Original
The nearest would be Egyptian gassed 60, or Steff Francis Extra fine
mercerised cotton.
http://www.stef-francis.co.uk/index.php?main_page=indexcPath=1
Brok 80/2 is a tiny bit finer, 60/2 a bit thicker.
Presencis Finca 80 is a 3ply thread which will produce a firmer feel to
the lace.
Brenda
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