Hi Sue
By "the S in milanese braid" do you mean Sandi Woods' "S for Serpent"
which is on the front of a Pat Read book? If so this is a fairly fine,
conventional style of BL and I personally wouldn't mix cotton and silk
in that type of lace. Cotton and rayon or cotton and linen, yes as
they are all cellulose fibres, but silk is protein which goes better
with wool or hair fibres. Also I think that mixing fibres would show
up in the different textures and possibly have a jarring effect on the
senses; silk is likely to be shinier than cotton.
In modern/freestyle lace where anything goes I'll happily mix anything
together and if it's coarse enough even shredded carrier bags or strips
of fabric, but not in the more traditional laces.
Brenda
On 7 May 2009, at 17:20, Sue wrote:
so i
thought I would attempt to do the S in milanese braid style in silk.
Only my
second time with silk and also my second working milanese braids of
any kinds
so a learning curve in lots of ways. I hope I can do it justice.
My question for you all today, (what would I do without you all? ) is
do any
of you use cotton threads on a length of lace and some silk along the
edges as
I am considering whether It would work for the garter outer fans. Is
this OK
or a very bad idea?
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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