If you are winding bobbins from scratch there is no need to have a
knot, but the nature of Honiton lace is that bobbins are frequently
bowed off (taken out) and re-used in another part of the lace.
When a pair is bowed off using blunt scissors the threads on that pair
will be knotted together. You then unwind one and rewind the other, at
the same time and without undoing the hitch. If the knot is wound back
far enough, the nature of Honiton is that it will probably come out
again before it gets into the lace.
Brenda
On 28 Feb 2009, at 14:42, Wendy Davies wrote:
I have just finished my first project in Beds and want to move on to
Honiton.
I have the Hontion book by Elsie Luxton which I bought form
Allhallows a
couple of years ago. Looking at the first project in the book is the
three
leaf spray, it tells me to wind the bobbins and put a knot in some of
the
threads. What I would like to know is what are the knots there for
because
usually a knot is our worst enemy or am i reading the instructions
wrong.
This is the fourth type of lace I am learning only another heaven
knows how
many to learn.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent - not Allhallows in Devon!
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