On Feb 17, 2008, at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...] Richard Worthen (bobbin turner in North Carolina, formerly Utah), uses the basic swivel-hackle but attaches the "handle" end of a Midlands bobbin so that it really works like a regular bobbin in your English laces. The spangle may cause problems in other laces [...]
I have a couple of Worthen's "handled" hackle pliers and, until you mentioned it, I didn't even realise that they were drilled and could be spangled (the bobbins I work with on a regular basis are non-spangled "squares")
Also from Clay:
Can't say enough good things about the tweezers, when it comes to cat hairs!!
Don't have any cats, so cat hair isn't an issue, but I can heartily recommend tweezers which have a bend at the business (grabbing) end, for working with fine laces, where the pins are small and/or very close together. I've always found it impossible to remove a misplaced pin in that situation, without removing several adjacent ones as well, especially if the misplaced pin was in a row further back.
But the bent-nose tweezers will dip into the forest and pluck out the specific pin without any trouble. They'll reposition it also, if you haven't actually misplaced it, but just want to clear a tiny spot to make sure that your stitches are OK.
And scissors with bent blades (manicure) are excellent for trimming off broken/added threads while the lace is still on the pillow (and under tension). You position them with the blades bending upwards and don't have to worry about them snipping more than you want. Even if the snip isn't *perfectly* flush with the lace, the tiny end will dissappear into the lace, once the lace is released and the tension is gone.
Yours, still trying to figure out (8 weeks later) some lacy use for scissors with a semi-circle taken out of one blade... The doctor did some snipping with them and then said "here, want them? They'll only throw them away". So I took them, but still don't know what the advantage is (or might be)
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