Alice, I've tried rayon for embroidery - EVIL thread! Wound up chucking the project. Rayon is a silk substitute, very slippery. I suppose if you've used silk thread, maybe rayon would work in BL, but it won't have much body.
Frankly if it was me, maybe I'd try a small sample piece, but probably not. Beth McCasland in warm sunny south Louisiana > [Original Message] > From: Alice Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/2/2007 11:08:43 AM > Subject: [lace] Rayon Thread for lace > > In a previous message, I said: > > > > > Most of these threads were rayon so they don't > > work well with lace. > > I got a private reply back which I wish to pass on, > and ask a question of you all: > > > > I love my rayon machine > > embroidery threads for lace and > > lots of my students get on well with them. As > > single threads for Milanese and > > similar like the Sandi Woods lace, or doubled up for > > Torchon. No worse than > > silk for staying on the bobbins. Finally all the > > different makes - Madeira, > > Coates, Sulky/Guttermans, Janone and others - each > > have their own wide colour > > range, but as they also all work well together, > there > > is an excellent choice of > > intermediate colours for shading. > > This made me think. Why do I say no rayon? My first > teacher used cotton and linen. Others had said > natural fibers were best -- cotton, linen, silk. The > only real NO I can think of is No Polyester. Somehow > my mind put the polyester and rayon in the same pile. > > So --- I take back my statement. I have no proof to > back it up. And now have the interesting challenge of > trying these threads for myself. All these years I > may have overlooked the resource right at hand of a > couple hundred colors of thread. > > My question to you: Have you used rayon thread for > lace, and if so, how did it work for you? > > Alice in Oregon -- nasty weather, cold, wet, windy. > Staying in and warm today. Supposed to start using > fingers in a light, limited way. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
