Someone commented that they were shown 8 different ways to make a tally. I have seen several, though not eight. This variation in the video was new to me.
I learned to make tallies with midland bobbins. It's very possible, though perhaps not the best for the method in the video. I never tried to hold two of the bobbins constantly in my fingers. In fact, when I learned tallies, I had active arthritis in my fingers and could not hang on to the bobbins in any normal fashion. I was taught the method where the bobbins lie on the pillow and are lifted separately when the worker weaves over and under. At the end of each pass, the passives are held spread under tension with the fingers while the worker is gently pulled into position. Due to the pain in my fingers, the only way I could hold the bobbins under tension was with my forearm across the three bobbins and the other hand controlling the worker. I was in a class and *had* to do it right then so I could proceed with the pattern. It was awkward but I did what I had to. Normally, now I hold the three bobbins tight with three fingers pressing them firmly to the pillow during the tensioning. I have also seen a demostration of making tallies while holding the three passives between the fingers and moving the weaver in and out between them. I think this is more common with bolster pillows. Some people tension the worker after passing over and back, so they tension always from one side. Some people tension on each side. The central passive is sometimes held firmly in the middle, and sometimes moved from side to side, opposite of the worker thread. I want to encourage people that they can make tallies no matter what kind of bobbins or pillow they use. There's more than one way to make a leaf or tally. Maybe this is a subject that someone could research and write up in a book. I would like to see the 8 (or more) methods illustrated. Alice in Oregon ... where I'm setting up a project that has lots of square tallies in it. It should give me practice. ----- Original Message ---- From: tess parrish <[email protected]> ... I also notice that I made much of the difference in ease of working tallies this way with continental bobbins as opposed to midlands bobbins. This was because my friend, something of a beginner at lacemaking, had been having trouble making tallies with her midlands bobbins, which are all she has. It is not meant to be a slur on one kind of bobbin over the other (I started out with midlands myself), but to suggest that she might find it easier to try bobbins without spangles. Anyway, what's done is done, and I hope that this will clear up some of the confusion which inevitably occurs when one is trying to explain a process without visual aids. The link to YouTube is: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPezWMox5-M> I hope you find it useful. Tess ([email protected]) in Maine USA on a lovely day. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
