I am also working a milanese pattern and chose to use coloured threads already in my box. I did a quick ish look at size against the width of the pattern and it looked fine. Louise Colgan recommends Gutterman silk which I dont yet have, but I do have lots of colours of the venus (which I also thought was meant to be similar in size to the fil a dentelle/special dentelle 80. Because it is my first piece I decided to go for similar colours making it easier to follow the instructions, plans ect and also metalic threads (something that I am not good at using). It has been going ok, but I am not totally happy with my tension, but I am persevering.
Which is me trying to explain my question which is, what threads are closest to the gutterman in thickness for the future. I am plodding on and hope to improve with continued working, but without metalic threads in the future. It has taken almost 2 years for me to actually jump in and do it, Sue T Dorset UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
