On 26 Mar 2006, at 02:30, JIM PRUITT wrote:
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?
Do you mean that each ground stitch is rounded out with a little hole
in the middle?
If that's the case then it was probably CTTpCTT. Ie honeycomb stitch
but all grid intersections worked instead of having the 'gap' rows as
in honeycomb ground.
Or, if you mean that the holes in the ground between the pins looks
bigger than usual, it's possible that the pins were not set exactly on
the grid intersections but moved out very slightly to give the effect
of some bigger holes (and some a bit smaller.
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?
I don't know a name for it but it would give an interesting effect if
worked with two different colours for the worker pairs - also useful to
teach/demonstrate the technique.
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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