On Apr 1, 2007, at 13:50, Janice Blair wrote:
I think mohair might be a nightmare.
For the scarf, I'd be inclined to use silk (a different sort of nightmare <g>) For a belt... Probably linen. I'll be sending off for the Habu Textiles sample book tomorrow to see what's what in the world of thicker "threads". Though Susan Lambiris tells me that thick threads is not all they have; they also carry 80/1 linen. That's an equivalent -- in thickness -- of 160/2 (or so she says; me, I can't figure out such advanced math <g>). And single-ply thread is what, supposedly, 16th and 17th century lacemakers used...
The laces in Le Pompe, BTW, do not have footsides as we understand them now and they're tensioned, heavily, *everywhere*. I have tried a small sample in (lacemaking) wool and it was quite amazing -- the wool compressed in the tensioning and it stayed put; almost no shrinkage...
I came home and bought bamboo skewers and pony beads intending to make my own bobbins. A bead at the top for the hitch and a number of beads at the bottom for weight and handling. I even bought some long bone beads for the bottoms. Never got round to it.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of :) If I were to plan on making my own bobbins -- even if I needed only some 30-36 prs -- I'd never get to making any lace with them; 20yrs down the road, I'd still be avoiding the task.
I'll have to buy them, ready-made. Well, I'm not going anywhere this spring and summer -- not to visit my son in CA, not to the IOLI Convention -- that should be a substantial enough saving to allow me to buy the bobbins I can live with :)
PS. Thanks to *everyone* -- on list and off -- who'd written on the subject. It's given me a lot of material to "chew on" vis different options. And, hopefully, the discussion may have also been of use to others
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