Some years ago I heard a lace day talk my one of the top marketing guys from Madeira and he definitelly said that Madeira use Tanne/cotona to make their six stranded embroideryfloss, and it almost certainly is what other manufactureres would do too.
Tanne and Retors are both intended for machine embroidery use; the soft spin means that it will cover the surface well with machine satin stitch. It also means that if it's used for BL the resulting lace will be soft rather than crisp. If you like the result then stick with it, if you don't then try something else.
However, you have to be dedicated to want to separate out the individual strands! I've done it with Caron Watercolours in which a single strand is equivalent to Perle 5 but comes in all sorts of interesting varigated colours, but probably wouldn't fiddle with embroidery floss unless I just *had* to have a particular colour.
Brenda
On 4 Apr 2004, at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Spiders all —— As I have been in a steady 24/7 lacemaking mood in
this recent rainy spell, I've had lots of time to work on my much-beloved current
project, "Cloth-of-Gold," a beige-and-gold tablecloth, and, obviously, have
had time to muse, ponder, meditate, ruminate, wonder, and . . . argue. What
I've been arguing about, with my invisible and nameless adversary, is the type of
beige thread that I'm using —— one strand of DMC embroidery floss, the worst
choice as everybody knows, and a dreadful no-no for lacemakers. Why? Because
it's so loosely woven as to be downright flaccid. And if you want a crisp,
bright, firm piece of lace, flaccid ain't gonna do it.
But "flaccid" is a pejorative. What about obedient, easy-to-use,
lovely-to-look-at, comes-in-a-trillion-colors, etc. etc.? I have got more than halfway
through my tablecloth, and haven't had a single broken thread (DMC's floss is
S-spun), and each stitch stays where you put it. For contemporary work I would
think it is ideal. And I look at my Cloth-of-Gold and I love it!
So what, what, what, dear Arachnes, is the forbidding edict against floss all
about? I would love to hear what you think. Brenda? Tamara?
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