Here's a question I just thought up today after quite a few years of lace making now.
In working this very complex Chantilly cloth, I find a problem which also often arises in Bucks Point. The number of passives between the work and the picots on the edge (can never remember which is headside and which is footside :) can vary from 2 pairs to 14 pairs. I find that when I'm using the very fine 2/20 silk and I have to tension up the 14 or so pairs, that's when I'm most likely to break threads.
As I do NOT want to subject my 2 cats to any more obscene language than is absolutely necessary, I was wondering whether there might be a few little clues lurking away out there in Arachne Land, to avoid these breakages. I've wondered whether it would make any difference if I tensioned from the outside or the inside; whether I tension each bobbin individually or in pairs; should I tension each pair as I pass through, rather than wait till I've gone through all 14 pairs etc. etc.
I only broke 3 threads today - but each one seemed so un-necessary - and I think Mother was rolling over in her grave with what I uttered. At least Roxy's getting a bit too old to hear it all. Had to have a stiff vodka.
Love
David in Ballarat
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