I was told once, by a lace friend who'd learned BL as a child many years ago from an elderly aunt that Bucks Point is made right side up. In a well tensioned piece of lace the gimp, which is there to be seen, will be slightly prominent on the top and so the top is the right > side.
I just looked at a PC "piece in progress" (suspended <g>) and discovered that it is so, indeed (I must be tensioning better than I'd thought <g>) -- the gimp rides slightly higher on the side facing me (what I'd thought of as "wrong" side). The difference isn't significant, but it's definitely there, and worth preserving -- as Brenda says, the gimp (in PG, anyway) is there to be seen...
Um... I would so much like to have my cake and eat it too...:) I like working from the back too much to give it up; that's why I spent all that time and effort reworking the raised gimp in Russian Tape...
I've been making that piece as I'd been told to (by several Arachneans): "lift the left" for the gimp to pass. I expect that's how your friend had been taught also. That method makes the gimp ride up on the side facing you.
But what if, instead of "lifting the left", I were to "raise the right"? The number of twists before and after might need to be adjusted, of course, but, would it "flip" the lace so that one'd be facing the wrong side (flatter gimp) instead of the right? Has anyone tried it to report on results? I can't conduct my own experiment at the moment, as I'm knee-deep in something else entirely...
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