I agree with Susan that a sewing machine can produce very good results. Whilst a lot of people curl their toes in horror at the thought of machine stitching to attach hand made lace to fabric I'm not one of them. I would much rather see the lace neatly applied by machine than cobbled on by hand. It depends on your individual skills.
I also strongly second Alice's comment about cotton and linen being plant cellulose fibres and silk being animal protein. If the decision is to attach linen lace to linen fabric using a sewing machine then almost certainly the thread used in the machine will need to be cotton. If the regular 50/3 sewing machine cottons, such as Amann/Coats Sylko or Guetermann are too thick for the lace and fabric look at YLI Heirloom sewing thread which comes in 70/2 and 100/2. Good for machine sewing, but don't run the machine too fast; being only 2-ply (and finer) it's not as sturdy as the 50/3s and more likely to snap. Brenda On 29 Jan 2013, at 17:12, Susan Reishus wrote: > and if you wanted > to use linen (mention of wanting to have it be 'all' linen), then perhaps hand > sewing on the lace if desired would be possible, but that cotton or silk would > do it more invisibly and easier as linen can tend to be temperamental and > break. My background is haute couture, French Heirloom and all forms of > needlework, so was sharing sewing insights from practical & esthetic, to > timeless & ease with best results (of which sewing machines do very well). Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
