Hi Wendy
You don't "have" to put knots on Honiton bobbins, it is more a case that you
do not "need" to use a pair wound without a knot.
Honiton lace is made up of shaped sprigs which means that as the braid
widens you need to add more pairs and as the braid becomes narrower you need
to remove pairs. Even in a small piece dozens of pairs may be removed and
added again later.
If every time you removed a pair they had to be rewound without a knot, it
would waste an enormous amount of time and thread, it is far quicker to tie
the pair back together.
As only short lengths of thread are being used (it's not as though you are
making "yardage"), when the pair is tied together the knot is wound on to
one of the bobbins so that it is not worked into the lace.
Once you get into the way of thinking that knots are not a problem, it is
just much simpler and quicker to wind each bobbin separately and tie them
together before you start.
Hope this helps
Annette in Trentham, Australia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "bev walker" <[email protected]>
To: "ARACHNE" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:08 AM
Subject: [lace] honiton knots
Wendy wrote:
Hi All
Can you please expalin in simple terms why I need to put knots in the
bobbins
when starting off Honiton as with the other types of lace i have learned
you
dont need to.
You don't 'need' to put knots in the threads when starting a honiton
piece.
If it is the very first honiton piece, then take the empty bobbin-pair -
wind one bobbin of the pair very full, and wind the other from the full
bobbin, just a small amount. As the less full bobbin is used up, you would
tie the end bit of thread to new thread. Where possible wind a lightly
full
bobbin from a more full one to make the pair (that way there are knots
only
in one of those two bobbins, less knots to deal with overall). They do a
manoevre with the blades of small scissors, held open a tiny bit and used
to
flip the thread into a knot and cut off the threads in a quick motion.wind
onto the bobbin (if you have a how-to book, there is likely an
illustration
of this). Deal with the knot as you encounter it in the lace.
I think this was a technique developed for efficiency - the honiton laces
were made for sale.
Hope this helps.
--
Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of
Canada
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