On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:15, Tess Parrish wrote:
I have been making leaves in the Brioude style for quite a while now. However, I can't bring my right thumb over to pick up the bobbins. ( This has to do with what must be arthritis in the thumb joint.) So, when I turn my right hand over to pick up the bobbin, I grasp it with my two first fingers, not using the thumb at all, and it seems to work just fine.
Up to a point :) It may work OK if all you have is the traditional 4 threads -- one each side, the tick-tock in the middle and a worker/weaver. But, in Montreal, some of the leaves we were making had 8 or even 10 threads -- the weaver, the tick-tock and the rest divided as evenly as possible between the two hands. What that means is that *all* "slots" (spaces between fingers) are used, and all fingers are keeping control of the "team"; there are none to spare as substitutes. It's like the difference between driving a sulky, pulled by a single horse or by a pair and controlling a 6-horse team pulling a state carriage :)
I loved the way you taught me to make leaves with the CCT, but the Brioude way? No way! <g>
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