In a message dated 11/5/2008 9:42:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But entire pieces of lace from hair!... Imagine how long the hair would have had to be, and how many times - even then - that you'd have to replace a strand with a new one. What an enormous nuisance - that would certainly discourage me from working it!! Actually, this is very interesting. In the case of our piece, I would say that you could get away with hair that is a foot or 18 inches long. As in working with fine silk, you don't actually use that much. The fan like most large chantilly pieces, is made in strange illogical shapes, suggested by the flowers, but not obvious to the eye. They are then sewn together, making all the joins interior joins, so that the edges have no ends that need to be finished on them. The hair, when it gets to a short end can be brought into the many stranded gimp bundle (probably the wrong term here) and disappear, while other pieces are brought in neatly. Actually Chantilly is a good mode for using short pieces, better than say, a long torchon strip. Devon **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from-aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
