Hi Mark
I think Tamara has answered this as well as I could have done. The
only other reasonably available thread I could suggest is YLI colours.
Brenda
I am currently working on the lessons from Edna Sutton's book "Bruges
Flower
Lace" and it calls for size 60/2 linen thread.
Not all linens 60/2 are precisely the same thickness, but they seem to
be in the same ballpark: 25-26 wraps per cm, according to Brenda
Paternoster's invaluable book. Your DMC perle 12, at 21 wpc is,
indeed, a tad too thick. Your Brok 50/2 doesn't seem to exist (jumps
from 36/2 to 60/2), so I don't know the wraps of what what you've
used, but cotton thread is always going to be much thinner than linen
thread of the same numbers (60/2 Brok is 36 wpc), though your flower
looked quite nice to me despite the thinnes of the thread.
If most of your threads are for tatting -- and cottons -- then your
closest bet would probably be Altin Basak's Klasik 70 (25 wpc) or DMC
Cordonnet 60 (24 wpc). Any single strand of embroidery thread would
work well also, at 25wpc. Probably better than cordonnet, since it's
2-ply, while cordonnets are 6-ply cords and handle differently and
produce different results.
An alternative would be to change the size of the pricking to match
the thread you have on hand.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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