On 2/24/09 5:21 AM, "Brenda Paternoster" <[email protected]> wrote: > If "just over 3 stitches per inch" means that there are just over 3 > pinholes per inch - along the footside then it's a spacing of just less > than 1/3 inch or 8mm between the pins. The optimum thread size for > that grid is, as Tamara says 15 wraps/cm.
Yes, that is it.....3 pin holes along the footside. > However, as we don't know how old the lace is it would be wrong to > suggest that it's made from something currently available; there was a > lot of Knox's linen used in the past. Three twists in the working > doesn't make the thread 3 ply. Mark, is it 2 ply or 3 ply? Upon examination I would say it is 2 ply. And it isn't highly twisted. There is a lot of thick and thin variation. So you think this thread was hand spun linen, instead of manufactured thread, before it made it into the hands of the lacemaker? Kind of fun to learn how to pick apart a piece of lace and see if we can find the history of it. I wonder if the piece was ever attached to anything. It isn't well blocked and has fold lines from being stored in not good conditions. Also has cigarette smoke smell. :-\ Could have been made and just not used. There is deliberate knotting of the ends as if the lacemaker meant to end it that length. Hmmmm.... -- Mark, aka Tatman Temporary blog: http://tatmantats.wordpress.com/ email: [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
