Jenny 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. >
I believe you have Lace 2000. If so,you can scan the line drawing and then
import it as a background. It can be resized and repositioned. If you then
use the program to draw over the lines of the drawing, you can then convert
the lines to dots. You choose how many dots (ie the spacing) on each section
of line that you've drawn. Works equally on straight and curved lines.
Then it would be up to you to decide how you wanted to work the piece.
"Drafting Torchon Lace Pattern by Alexandra Stillwell, published by The Bath
Press 1986, ISBN 0 8521 9627 X has a chapter
(7 pages) on 'Freestyle Pictures' showing the drafting on diagonal square
graph paper of an Edwardian lady and a group of mushrooms with fillings in
different ground.
"Modern Lace Design" by Veronica Sorenson, published by Batsford 1984, ISBN
0 7134 4206 9 has a chapter "Designing Lace Pictures", which is just a
couple of pages of description on why you'd want to do it and insopiration,
but it does have a few designs in the body of the book. One which
immediately comes to mind is a bird of paradise embroidery converted to
lace, which descriptions of suggested fillings to use. Donlt think the
finished lace is shown.
Before Lace 2000, I used a cross stitch computer program, purely because it
gridded the picture.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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