Hello Susan Were you with Arachne when we discussed curly lace a year or so ago?
After numerous trial and error pieces the conclusion was that half stitch puts more Z twists into the lace than S twists, and with a tightly twisted Z spun thread, especially of it's shiny and slippery all the torque in the Z direction causes the finished lace to spiral in the opposite way, ie S direction.
See: http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/curlylace/curlylace.html Brenda On 9 May 2009, at 17:44, Susan Reishus wrote:
May seem moot to some, but I have found it to be a real headache saver when doing repetitive things, and a time saver too. If I smock with thread against the nap, it will wear out much more quickly than with the nap. Also I note that it something that is worked more or less in one direction, and with too much "torque" on the thread, can result in a biased piece or one that will not lie or relax into it's natural harmony, and is an often unnamed factor there also.
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