Dear Sharon and other spiders
the only time I had the opportunity to take a pattern from an old vellum pricking (which didn't belong to me, alas) I got good results from an ordinary photocopier. I put a sheet of black paper behind the pricking to help the holes stand out, and had to fiddle with the dark/light controls quite a bit, but ended up with a useable copy. I then pricked it onto plain paper, trued it up, and made a new pricking on card as usual. I was very pleased with the resulting lace - it was a sort of neck-tie-cum-jabot in bedfordshire lace.
PS I did do some brass rubbing, long ago in the dim and distant past, for which we used something known as 'cobblers heel ball'. It was like a very black, very fat wax crayon. You could also get it in colours, even metallics, which were very effective for church brasses. No idea if its still available...
Bridget Marrow, in Watford UK
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