Hello everyone -
I have also had my turn with trying to learn this technique. Anny
Noben-Slegers demonstrated this during a workshop a couple of years ago
- using Binche bobbins. She seemed to be made of more flexible stuff
that I am!!! (Not to mention more genius, more grace, more
imagination... and on and on and on!!!) I have a very difficult time
twisting my right hand into the position required to capture the bobbin
for the toss!! I don't think I would be any better off with the left
hand - to be honest. Still... maybe the larger bobbins would help.
At any rate, I continue to plod along, lifting and crossing and twisting
each pair, one at a time... but my tallies are respectable. They may
not be fast, but they're respectable.
So... here's the next explosive subject for debate: WHAT TO DO WITH
THE WORKER AND MATE at the end of the tally???
- Carry on, as normal...
- Do a knot to secure the tally...
- Do a half-hitch to "help" secure the tally...
Any other tricks to keep the tally from collapsing???
Clay
(who is not endorsing any or all of the above tricks - just curious!!!)
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Margot Walker wrote:
I, too, found it impossible while using East Midlands bobbins. But I
could do it using Continental bobbins - they're just that much thicker
and easier to grab while your hand's contorted!
On 2 Jun 2008, at 17:45, Tess Parrish wrote:
Now for the hard part--which the lacemakers in Brioude can do without
a hitch: When you are ready to make the double twist on the right, you
turn your right hand over, still holding those outer bobbins firmly
between those outer fingers, pick up the right hand bobbin between
your second and third fingers and flip the double twist. What they do
in Brioude is to pick up that right bobbin with thumb and forefinger.
This is impossible, if you ask me, but they can do it. The left side,
for some reason, is much easier to do. It's that right hand that just
doesn't bend that far.
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