Thank you ladies, I love to learn from you all. I want to use this on a
piece of clothing so wonder if cotton might be a smarter plan? although
the dress is not cotton, so might the anchor embroidery thread work as well?
Not sure at the moment whether to to try to match or contrast colour. When
i took the pattern out last night I wanted to get started, but now I think I
will need to check out the threads first.
Thank you all.
Sue T
Mouline is stranded cotton so they are possibly suggesting you use one
strand, or more for gimps. Â Quite a few of my Russian lace books have
stranded thread pictured and it's what we were given to work with in Moscow.
The easiest way is just to see which thread is the right size to fit x pairs
in the braids. Â It might be finer than you think, and if it's too thick the
plaited fillings will look clumsy.
Jacquie in Lincolnshire
Mouline means stranded cotton, so DMC stranded embroidery cotton, Anchor
stranded embroidery, any other brand ... they are all pretty similar.
Brenda
I am looking through a book of Russian Lace patterns and it mentions a
thread
called Mouline DMC cotton. It also mentions natural silk, linen and cotton
can be used of appropriate thickness. Not sure I have found the right thing
In
Brendas magic book.
I feel this might be an old type thread and would be interested to hear what
threads are around now of similar thickness etc.
Any help please, gratefully received.
Sue T
Dorset UK
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