Brenda Paternaster is your person when it comes to thread size comparisons. I'm sure she'll contact you when she reads your request.
I'd like to comment on the suggestion of polyester on linen though. When I was doing a City and Guilds in Dressmaking and Pattern Cutting in 1969, taught by a lady who had worked on the trousseau of the 'old' Princess Marina as opposed to the one who's alive now, was told that you use natural threads on natural fibres and synthetic threads on man-made fibres as follows: cotton on cotton or wool, cotton or linen on linen, silk on silk and polyester on man-mades. The reasoning behind it was the different friction between the different fibres. She maintained that polyester thread was almost like wire and would gradually cut through cotton fibres and that cotton thread used on polyester would eventually break for the same reason. She'd have had apoplexy if she'd seen any of us using polyester thread on a cotton fabric. Jean in Poole - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
