Dear Diane, et al,
That's really quite helpful, as you can see from the picture of the lace,
it is, in essence, torchon. I think careful measurement before and after
washing the swatch will go a long way to figuring things out, and make it
easier for it to stay in sync with the cloth. And probably easier to clean in
the long run. I will be asking the head of the Altar Guild how they plan to
clean something like this. I do like the hot hot water idea, although where
I'm going to find a place to do that with 73 inches of lace is a problem I'll
have to solve.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it's going to be another nice summer
day. Mostly sun, high 86F 26C.
> Diane Z wrote:
>Some time ago I washed my #50 thread linen torchon project in the washing
>machine on warm water in a bag. It was dried flat and pinned out a little
>but not really stretched (it did not have picots). Best I recall, the
>measurements were 26" x 6". I pre-measured and found that it shrunk 5% in
>the long width. I'm assuming that it shrunk the same in the narrow
>measurement.
>
>So this may be some type of guide for torchon, linen size 50. I'm also
>going to assume that other types of laces will have different proportions.
>
>- I'm planning on
>using a pattern from the Svenska Spetstar
>http://www.svenskaspetsar.se/sv/article/928/kors_langd or
>http://tinyurl.com/brta54r
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