On Jun 20, 2005, at 22:06, Bev Walker wrote:
share. I have seen kumihimo braids used effectively with bobbin lace
amulet purses (the k/h braid for the pendant cord). The slentre braid
(as I know it) seems to be better applied flat than used strictly as a
cord - though it would be a good 'lace' as in 'shoelace.' To make this
braid, plan on miles more thread than you think you need. It seems to
me
there was a limit to how long you could make it, according to one's
armspan
For a nice (roundish) cord, in the same colours/thread as your lace...
Use the "tubular roll finish" illustrated in Bridget Cook's "Practical
Skills in BL" (Section IX, #48. Also shown in Section VI, #8; "carrying
pairs in a roll").
You don't have to have the "minimum of 6-7 prs" as suggested; 3 will
do, though it does need a 4pr minimum to start "rolling" (ie being
round). You don't have to have to support the "laid over" side of it
with a pin, either, though, if you don't, the cord will become a bit
"twisty" (an interesting effect in itself <g>). You don't have to learn
a new technique, or grow extra long arms, or need a budy to help...
Your old, trusty bobbins will do it, same as they do everything else :)
If not pinned, the worker is the least visible of the pairs, the
passives show off more. Good tension is essential, as usual.
And there are other cords - round, flat, semi-flat - that one can make
with bobbins... My current favourite (because I've invented it for
myself <g>) is a (pinless) rib/roll, with the roll in the middle.
You need: 4 or more pairs. 3 of them are workers/edge pairs, the rest
(any number) are "core"; the cord will be the colour of the workers, so
the core colour is immaterial (good for hiding pairs you carry <g>).
Cloth stitch two adjacent worker/edge pairs. Take the inner one as your
worker, pass the right-hand thread of it under, and the left-hand
thread of it over (like gimp) the core. Cloth stitch with the waiting
edge pair, which then becomes a worker.
Yours, still playing around with Rosalibre in every spare moment, and
stumbling accross lots of exciting discoveries (possibly re-inventing
the wheel again but, if so, please don't tell me <g>)
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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