Hello Devon and everyone Maybe it was in the late 1990's that I first heard of covering a pricking with blue film, was it from another lacemaker, could even have been on Arachne?! When I bought a lace kit from Pussy Willow Lace Supplies, about 1990, the pricking was on blue card. The prickings in the nice little kits from Springett were on coloured card also. My first and only lace teacher (1986) gave us the patterns, photocopied on plain white paper from a photocopy done with heat-transfer paper of the hand-drawn original. The copied copies had charming residual splotches captured by the most recent photocopy lens, surrounding the lines of the pattern. We didn't cover the prickings. I still have them, in a binder.
In my how-to book of the time, and some time after, Pam Nottingham's Bobbin Lace Making, she instructs us to draw in any markings using a pencil, on to the pricked card (thick brown glazed card 'from suppliers' or dark coloured manilla card that I suppose one would have around), and mark them in permanently with India ink - not a ballpoint pen which ink would discolour the thread. No mention of covering the pricking with film. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely others recall the pre-blue film days? > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - 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/
