Hi All! I've been having a blast charting lace patterns from some of the pieces of Czech lace for our Czech and Slovak museum. The piece that I'm working on right now is an insertion piece, and it looks like they used wool for the gimp. It makes it look a bit fuzzy, but cool. I was wondering, it looks like in this piece, a stitch was done to make larger hole, and then it was rounded out in some way, maybe using a tapestry needle or something like that. Is there a name for rounding out a stitch like that? Maybe a special tool? Also, I am working on a tape lace doily, and I was really freaked (in a good way) when I studied how the tape part was worked. I expected that it would have one pair of workers going zig-zag through the passives, but instead, it has two pair of workers, and they take turns. This works on the outside, that instead of picots, there is a twisted point at the end of each pinhole. On the inside, it works kind of like a footside, but without the extra vertical pair that you would normally have there. This makes the horizontal threads lay so much nicer and parallel, and it looks like it will be easier to do joins when necessary. I've never seen this before, but I can't wait to try it! Is there a name for this? Am I an idiot for never noticing it before? Any info would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks! JoAnne Pruitt
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