In message <961b07a710a9487dbe6009b548992...@suzyf9f7c645ba>, Sue
<[email protected]> writes
I had one of Elwyn Kenns books to hand and just looked at the last pattern
and of course you are right, there isn't anything other than a normal pin
dot to tell anyone that it should be a picot, it just is:-) but looking
through the book I see the working diagrams with the small circles as
mentioned by another arachnean.
Ah, click! The picots marked with small circles are false picots, where
you are bringing two pairs into the lace as a picot, rather than those
that occur along the headside and as you say, are not marked because
they are always picots.
I think it is only by experience that you begin to understand why these
are placed as they are, though studying a number of patterns will help
you - with a false picot, you are bringing two pairs in each time - if
they were similar pins in a torchon pattern you would only be bringing
one pair in. There are a number of books with very good diagrams that
show how this works in practice, but the hurdle you are trying to
overcome is the leap from following a pattern and its working diagram
to understanding why the threads need to go a certain way.
--
Jane Partridge
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