Hello Susan
I've been following the linen & metallic thread discussions with
great interest. What sort of lace would be made with Goldschild linen
aka Londonderry or Rainbow Gallery?? I have both in my embroidery
stash & neither one looks too appetizing to me, i.e thick & bumpy.
Heavier Torchon probably - or Russian braid lace.
What sizes of Londonderry/Rainbow Gallery line do you have? I am
trying to confirm that these are all the same threads, just with
different brand labels attached. Goldschild usually quote both the
metric Nm and the Linen NeL numbers (Nm is always a smaller number than
the NeL)
I have some Danish linen that is much finer & more appropriate (in my
mind) for lacemaking.
Is that Moravia 40/2? If so it's not Danish but from the Czech
Republic. This is another case of the same thread getting different
brand names. Jana Novak of Atelier Moravia in Denmark is Czech by
birth but emigrated to Denmark as a young woman. However she sources
her lace threads in the Czech Republic. I don't know who produces the
linen; I think it goes back to the communist days when everything was
state controlled and brands didn't exist, but some of my 'Moravia
equivalent' linen came from another Czech lacemaker/teacher, Anna
Hallikova, at one of the Lace Guild conventions.
The metallic threads Jana sells are also Czech, made by Texlen. Texlan
make a bigger range of metallics than Moravia take.
As to metallics, Madeira Astro is a wonderful product & far superior
to Kreinik blending filament, for use in embroidery.
Astro in Medeira threads just means varigated colours. Madera use the
same description for their rayon and polyester threads. However, the
only metallic which comes in Astro colours, as well as solids, is No
40. It's a wrapped thread which mans a strip of metalised polyester is
wrapped around a core of rayon filaments. It's smoother than most of
the twisted metallic threads but not so good if it's going to get a lot
of friction (ie making sewings) because the outer wrapping strip can
get broken to expose the core.
Another metallic that I have not yet seen mentioned is YLI, called
Candlelight I believe, & it comes in a nice range of colors. It is a
heavier metallic & would work nicely as a gimp for a tatting cotton
weight thread in the ground.
There are lots of other brands of metallics out there too. Bart &
Francis, Mez, Anchor, Presencia, Habu Textiles, DMC, Anchor ......
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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