On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:56, beth wrote:
Les Lauriers is a heavy, "furnishing" lace made in thick linen thread
[...]
I want it to lie flat, not least so that vases and so forth placed on
the mat [...]
So the lace and the fabric need to fit each other perfectly and stay
that way
- no shrinkage of either allowed after the lace is mounted.
Sorry, that's never gonna happen :) If it's a mat, it'll be washed some
day and if it's washed, the lace and the fabric will react differently,
even after both had been pre-shrunk. The lace, like the fabric, may
shrink only once, but it will "close on itself" more than the fabric
with every washing and will need to be stretched, while wet, to fit the
fabric. Even so, you may need to use an iron (on the wrong side, over
the fabric) to eliminate the puckering at the join.
Pre-shrinking the fabric is easy [...]
but what about the lace? Does it need to be
washed to shrink it, or will leaving it to shrink after the pins are
taken
out be enough? How long would it need leaving?
I'd probably wash it (and wet-stretch it) to make sure that I got all
the shrinking tendency out of the thread. But, as I said, even after
it'd done shrinking, it'll still come out "closed" from every
subsequent washing, in comparison to the fabric. Though, I suppose, a
Beds/Cluny might do it less than some other laces, since the leaves are
likely to provide a sturdy "spine" to it.
mmm, that thread about mangling just surfaced again - do our experts
reckon
mangling suits a heavy beds/cluny lace?
Not an expert -- as I've said before -- but I would think that mangling
would have a lovely effect on a Beds/Cluny linen piece. The lace is
sturdy as is the thread and you should get an even better sheen on it.
persuade some of the leaves into 2D rather than 3D format!
Leaves are inherently 3-D and therein lies their charm :)
T, in yo-yo weather Lexington. 63 (F) one day, 29 the next...
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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