On 2/27/06, Leonard Bazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > into the second edition. It is a warning against > automatically truing up all old patterns on a totally > regular grid.... > > ... Towards the head the rows are > placed nearer together to obtain a more square effect. ... > I personally find the most efficient way of working > the ground is to do a row without pins, then put them > in, checking that the stitches look (or rather feel) > ok, and then, as already recommended, removing pins > that are so out of place that they distort the ground.
The foregoing, excellent advice and information. The old pattern I'm working is itself a student-made pricking, and perhaps not by a practiced hand. There are little surprises such as rogue pinholes <g> However I will pay attention to the ground once the correct number of bobbins is established. I need to get a handle on the pattern as a whole. > work. I have not seen an old pillow with Bucks on it > without the sea of pins either in real life or a > photo; has anyone else? I strongly suspect that the > prickings without pins in the ground were for a > plaited ground, such as Mechlin or Valenciennes, where > the more stable nature of the ground avoided this > problem. I will try to locate the reference to pinless point ground (i.e. Bucks) for speed - it made sense to me at the time, but might only have been that particular writer's theory. It occurred to me that if this was common practice, why would the ground areas be pricked necessarily. But maybe the worker needs them for reference. Interesting speculation. -- Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com blogging lace at www.looonglace.blogspot.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
