Within my collection of crochet hooks I have old English hooks with a number
system similar to the American ones. However, I have also even older ones
in bone, wood and steel, which have no indication at all as to there size.
So one had to just match hook to thread as best one could according to test
result, tension and taste.
Good lace making!
Joepie, East Sussex where it is raining hard.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:20 AM
To: Lace
Subject: [lace] Terms
Alex wrote:
<Don't get too confused.>
I don't. I either stick to the terms I know, like whole stitch and whole
stitch and twist, and ignore any others, or I translate American into
English without much trouble. In the UK we all know that if a man took his
pants off, he'd be in court for indecent exposure! Strange really we you
think that we have to "translate" English into English.
Alice emailed me privately:
<They are .4mm or .6mm, just like you have. Our suppliers get them from the
same source as yours, so they are marked YOUR way. <G>
If they had to be labeled USA way, they would be 14, 15, or 16.>
That must be very confusing for you. We're used to parallel units such
buying a pint of beer, but a litre of petrol (gas) and using Fahrenheit for
temperature when it's hot and Centigrade when it's cold. Would probably been
better if we'd gone totally metric in one go, but we all understand whether
metric or imperial is used for each thing, so it doesn't matter. Still, I
suppose it's unlikely that anyone other than a lacemaker would buy a crochet
hook from a lace supplier, and assume that general supplier of crochet hooks
do supply sizes 14, 15 and 16. Now someone will tell me I'm wrong.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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