What kind of lace do you want to make, from the line drawing? Torchon itself, or a tape lace? or something else again...
One of my own early designs was a daffodil, made flat - I made a line drawing from a painting I liked. I looked at a logical starting 'point' - it was a line, of the trumpet - and drew CTC lines back and forth across the shape, deciding where I might end that bit, and/or finagling the bobbins as a group over to another bit, to complete lower petals. I made edge decisions (sewing edge, turns around the pin or perhaps picot) for appearance; you know you can put extra twists to the weaver and/or passives to create spaces, the spaces can suggest shape or shadow anyway. I played with it for quite awhile. Then I made another one with CT instead of the CTC areas and liked that better. Even earlier than this, I made a llama, a tiny weaving starting at the ears, with two leaf tallies. I zigzagged back and forth over the line drawing I had made, using it as a pricking and judging by eye where the weaving should go. I was quite pleased that it actually looked like a llama when finished. I made two, one to keep, one to give away. Oddly enough, 'my copy' of the llama showed up in My Stuff just recently. <lace list history time> If anyone reading this remembers the wedding veil project for the list owner - the tiny llama was my contribution. The arachne subscribers were sending little motifs on themes that Liz liked, for her to use on her wedding veil. Further to that, she didn't make the veil as planned, and the motifs were going to be used on another project.I don't know if that happened. Jenny, maybe someone knows of such a book, and there might be a magazine article or two on the subject. I'm thinking you are going to try this anyway ;) On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Jenny Brandis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With my background of a whole 3 years learning basic Torchon lace can you > advise me on a book that would teach me to convert a line drawing to a > piece > of lace. Should I be looking at traditional Milanese or Honiton or > ........ > should I just have a go and learn from my mistakes? -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
