Ann-Marie and Brenda,
Claire Burkhard's "50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns" has two patterns which use Pagoda silk; both are worked in strips, later on joined to form a wider scarf. Both are "Torchon-esque" in appearance, so I assume Torchon "rules" apply to the footside pin-spacing.
The first (Small Rhombus) has footside pins spaced at 7mm, with instructions to work at 125%, which would bring it to just a tad under 9mm apart. Thread instructions say: Pagoda silk or fine wool. And I know that fine wool for lacemaking is available in Sweden -- saw it in Tonder, at Swedish stalls.
The second (Butterflies) has the footside pins spaced at about 8.5mm apart. It uses Pagoda silk *and* silk No 200/6 (no clue what that might be, sorry <g>) for the scarf. But the same pricking can be used for other purposes (table runner, window curtain), and there, at the same spacing, the thread used is linen 40/3 or 35/2
Hope this is sufficient to, at least, get the two of you *started* on getting the pattern converted to other threads. Once you do, I expect Pipers Silk will have *something* of comparable thickness -- they seem to have an infinite variety of clours and sizes... Or, maybe, someone will tell us where Pagoda can be bought; I seem to remember that it had been mentioned here before, but it's the case of "I can hear the bells ringing, but don't know which church"...
Don't know anything about Bourette silk, sorry.
Well that means that my guess of it being a knitting yarn sounds right.
7mm footside pin spacing enlarged to 125% = 8.75mm.
Torchon ideally has 12 wraps between foot-edge pins, so:
12 wraps/8.75mm = 12 / 8.75 x 10 = 13.7 wraps cm.
Likewise 12 wraps/8.5mm = 12 / 8.5 x 10 = 14.1 wraps/cm
Which means you are looking at 14 wraps/cm plus or minus a couple of wraps. (The thicker the threads the less leeway there is, fine thread/prickings can vary by 8 or 10 wraps/cm and still be OK)
There are quite a few silks in that size range, but for a scarf you would need a fairly large quantity, so you are probably looking at a knitting or weaving yarn rather than something intended for embroidery.
Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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