Hello Vicki and everyone
Since bobbin lace *is* weaving, you can simply call it off-loom weaving
with greater range of movement among the threads compared to that on a
loom. I tried really hard to teach bobbin lace to a group of weavers,
using weaving technology - I was surprised that many of them work
empirically, working by feel rather than by structural understanding. So,
that experiment didn't work, but they did learn with the usual BL intro :)
Two-weavers/two-warp routine is unique to BL 'cloth stitch' [=CTC]
which except for the sides, edges, or selvedge, is identical in appearance
to plain weave.
If any weaver understands triaxial weaving, they will know how difficult
it is to do on a loom, but not unachievable. Basketry ('mad-weave')
and bobbin-lace ('half-stitch') have triaxial weaves without a complicated
loom to do so :))
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bye for now
Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com
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