Hi everyone and for Weronika Maybe try search a different part of eBay for your fabrics for hemming experiments - I have slo-mo and don't usually visit eB. often, but surely there will be something like a stack of 'as is' table napkins, or hankies, or even an old pillowcase (doesn't have to be linen, really it doesn't!). Others have given you good sources for 'real' shopping, but it sounds like 'virtual' is easier for you.
If you do obtain linen from an art source, there might be sizing in it which you would want to wash out first. Also be aware that lately 'linen' or 'linens' often refers to 'household fabric' (period) regardless of fibre content, in retail places, and so it seems at eBay (I just snuck some time there - to the list of 'Textiles Linens, Antiques, Fabric, and Linens items at low ...' (prices?) when I googled for 'linen hanky fabric'). Further, rather than matching your lace fibre to the fabric fibre - match by 'heft' - a thickish lace to a thickish cloth for instance. Maybe if you have a tea towel to compare (for that matter you can use a tea towel. Maybe DH/BF/SO has a shirt he'd donate <vbg>). One of my earliest efforts to sew lace to fabric was a coloured linen edging (bobbin lace) sewn to a quilter's quarter (cotton fabric) which was then trimmed. The colour in the linen thread was echoed in the design of the fabric; the print fabric hid a multitude of sewing boo-boos, and I use that particular hanky/edged textile-thing with pride, even as a cover cloth. You don't need to sew white lace to white fabric either ;) bye for now Bev in pleasantly rainy Sooke BC (west coast of Canada) www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
