Home again after Prague, and my luggage has caught up with me again. I spent yesterday Surveying all the 'goodies' I bought and discovered only a couple which I should have had second thoughts about.
The methods of drawing Czech patterns is so different from what we are used to. Most of them are more of less just sketches and the lace maker has to decide for herself just where to put pins, how many twists etc. Sometimes the number of pairs is indicated, usually not, and the thread is usually shown as 'cotton' or linen with no size given. Most lace seems to be worked in linen thread which is approx. 35 or 40 thickness and come sin a rainbow of wonderful colours. Did buy a fair bit of that, with no regrets. it was comparatively inexpensive, I think for one reason that they do not seem to be consistent dye lots which always adds to the expense of threads.
Now to start downloading some of the pictures I took, then how to select some to put on the web? I'll report back when I get to far.
Jean in Cleveland, U.K. where it's cooler than Prague by about 10 degrees!
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