On 12 Jun 2010, at 00:27, Janice Blair wrote: > I have been going through some thread belonging to a member of our guild who > is no longer able to make lace. I have come across a couple of spools of > linen with no name or size that I recognise. They are on orange cardboard > tubes. At one end it says "Vlas-Lin-Linen" and the other end has "20 grams > White-1CO". Does anyone know who they might be made by and any idea of size? > It is a fairly thin thread.
Hi Janice A couple of years ago I received a similar query from Jacqui Tinch >> >> Hi Brenda, >> Long shot I think, but if anyone knows, you will. >> >> I have some linen thread I would like to identify so I can label a sample >> made using it. It has a card centre core, covered in red paper. At the top >> it reads VLAS - LIN - LINNEN and at the bottom 20gram WHITE - 60 >> >> I normally put the cover inside the tube so it may be a part reel I have >> inherited from elsewhere, and could be anything up to 30 years old! My reply was: > > I've just found a spool of this in a box of oddments!!! > My spool has very little left on it so I've been able to push the thread > right down to one end and see the whole of the red paper. > On one side there's a drawing of a continental bobbin and on the other the > words > Made in Belgium by > FFR Aalst The description of the spool sounds very similar (mine is a faded orange-red, not a pinky/purple red). Janice, are you sure it's "20 grams White-1CO" at the bottom. Could it be "20 grams White-160" In which case it's Belgian FFR linen 160 - rather finer than the examples which Jacqui and I have. Vlas-Lin-Linen are just the Dutch-French-English words for linen/flax Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.me.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
