For my City & Guilds Part 1 (back in 1996!) I made a wedding veil with a
tamboured edging. The edging is 2 inches wide around a 60 inch diameter
circle. Working on the outer circumference measurement, having cut the
inner circle from cotton net, I cut three straight strips of two yards
(72 inches, the full width of the net) - total six yards - to tambour
for the edging. I used ten balls of thread, including two balls with
freshwater pearls threaded on, and my frame allowed me to work 11 inches
at a time (it took six hours to work 11 inches) before "moving up" - I
could manage five hours a day before my shoulder started complaining! In
total, it took four months to finish - about 150 hours.
I found that it needed very little gathering on the inner edge of the
strip to mount onto the circle of net - to the point that you cannot see
that the edge is gathered at all on the finished veil.
Six yards is just over five and a half metres, so gained my admission to
the Canadian Lacemaker Gazette's Five Metre Club (no, it doesn't have to
be bobbin lace!). The finished veil, together with the tatted tiara that
my mother made for me to wear at my wedding (nearly 30 years ago) is
pictured in the Gazette, Vol 12 No 2 - Winter 1997.
As 1.5m is approx 58.5 inches, so very near the 60 I started with, you
may find that you can work the outer edging as a straight strip, it will
be the inner ones that need more of a curve. Remember also that with
bobbin lace, the passive pairs of the footside can be used as gathering
threads - easier if you work the passives in cloth stitch (CTC) instead
of cloth & twist (CTCT), to ease the edge to the length you need.
In message <[email protected]>, Brenda
Paternoster <[email protected]> writes
Alternatively, if you are thinking of making a fairly fine lace, such
as point ground or fine torchon with a proper footedge you might find
that the natural curve which that type of lace gets (without adding
extra twists to the outside pair to counteract that curve) will be
enough to curve the first few rings - just work a long enough
'straight' edging/insertion of the required length.
Brenda
On 30 Nov 2010, at 20:19, Karen Zammit Manduca wrote:
I am planning to design and work a wedding veil in bobbin lace for my
daughters and niece to wear if they ever get married - if not it will just
be a family heirloom (I hope).
My idea is to make this a 1.5 metre circle and to start working in bands
from the outside in. You may ask why "from the outside in". Well, my
reasoning is that if I don't get to the end of it, I would have an outer
circle worked and I will just mount this onto tulle. You may ask why "in
bands" and the idea is that it will be manageable, fast and portable.
So the question is this: How do I calculate the outer circle size and the
size of the grid for that circle? - I can work on a torchon grid. How do I
then calculate the sizes of the inner circles as I move inwards?
--
Jane Partridge
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