Alice wrote on 9 January
"There can be a problem with some laces that use gimp.
Someone once reported that a pattern was almost
impossible to do, as printed in a book. The answer
was that it was printed upside down. When turned
around, the gimp movements were possible."
As Steph noted on 11 January, you don't need a gimp
for this problem to arise either.
Floral Bucks is certainly one lace where up-ending a
pattern with the footside on the "wrong" side doesn't
always work; you should mirror-image it. Generally,
start at the top of the flower or sprig, and end with
the stalk. However, this can apply in well-designed
patterns, for example, handkerchief edgings, which to
the innocent eye look symmetrical around a central
reverse. Good examples are on pages 128 and 142 of
Pamela Nottingham's "The Technique of Bucks Point
Lace". It's usually at the nook pins where the
differences have been introduced, so mainly a gimp
problem.
I generally work with the footside on the right,
certainly for Bucks point, but with it on the left for
early forays into Flandern and point de Paris. I
think there can be a practical difference in working
the different ways, though I'm not sure whether it
really matters. I've virtually always ended up with
the main angle of work top right to bottom left,
whichever side the footside was on. Assuming that the
bulk of the design is on the headside, and net on the
footside, with the footside on the right, the net
works into the cloth (or whatever), while with the
footside on the left, it works out of the cloth. The
picture of a pillow with work in progress in "La
Dentelle de Bayeux a l'ecole de Rose Durand" by J
Potin and MC Nobecourt on page 41 shows the same line
of work, with the footside on the left, of course.
The only diagrams in Shelly Canning's "32 Downton Lace
Patterns" which show a working angle, nos. 27 and 30,
are the same. Has anyone noticed this, or is it just
me being awkward? Can it make a difference to
tensioning, or anything else that might matter? It's
nothing to do with spangled/unspangled bobbins, as I
use unspangled S Bucks bobbins for Bucks.
Baffled, but interested
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