Hi Spiders,
The discussion about embroidery floss and its suitability for lace is very timely for
me. I am working a pattern from the Swedish Lace Organization in 40/3 linen. I have
worked and re-worked certain sections multiple times (I blush to say how many) and the
linen wears like iron.
Brenda
I'm not sure that DMC does use their machine embroidery thread to make their
floss. Floss is very soft and the strands are a little hairy. Retors is
tightly twisted and less flexible. Retors (their machine embroidery thread)
has to be strong enough to withstand the mechanical motion of
, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: [lace] floss
Brenda
I'm not sure that DMC does use their machine embroidery thread to make
their
floss. Floss is very soft and the strands are a little hairy. Retors is
tightly twisted and less flexible. Retors (their machine embroidery
thread)
has to be strong
Lorelei
I agree with you!
Until now I've never properly looked at DMC's Retors and stranded floss
together, but the floss does have a much looser spin, and is S spun
whilst Retors is Z spun.
Strange thing is, Tanne is very similar to Retors and is Z spun whilst
my records (the book) say that
Aurelia
I've used all 6 strands of DMC floss to make some samples, intrigued as you
are by the huge array of colors. I found that 6 strands worked well at
5/inch. The reason against using it that I can see is that with multiple
strands easily separated there is too much opportunity for hard
Aurelia
I've also used the DMC embroidery threads - because I wanted the range of
colours - peacock blues and greens! They worked quite well but then I
discovered the Presencia Algodon threads and now use these. They have a
wonderful range of colours and work up well.
Jenny Rees
Canberra
Jen these sound interesting, Where do you get yours?I use the floss but
it is not really good for BL.
I also like DMC and Anchor tatting threads for BL.
BarbE
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