>Dear Jenny, >Went to your website, and you are prolific! Amazing. I do like longterm >projects. There is something about them that I feel connects me to the >original lacemakers. Anyhow, in your website you talk about wetting the lace >and then rolling it out. I learned to mangle by taking the finishing lace and >then putting it on a hard surface and using something like a rolling pin as if >it were piecrust or cookies, but no water in sight. You might want to try >that method, as the results are not so flattening. This is not to say that >the effect on your website doesn't look fine, it does, but it may not be the >look you want, and dry mangling might be the answer. > >Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where we're in for sun, but still not >warm enough to sit on the deck, drink tea and make lace. That may happen next >week. > > >> >>When it comes to mangling linen lace - I am in two minds on this subject as >>I just tried it on a small piece of linen Bedfordshire lace and ... click >>the very bottom picture on http://www.brandis.com.au/craft/Lace/201304.html >>and judge for yourself. >> > > >"My email sends out an automatic message. Arachne members, >please ignore it. I read your emails."
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