Thank you so very much ladies! I do have Brenda's delightful and invaluable book, I have since she mentioned it here as a 1st edition. My how it's grown!
I've only heard wonderful things about Piper's silks, and I've a line on a local (ish) lacemaker who is attending a lace day soon who hopefully will keep an eye out for a stash of it at the vendors there! Arachne is a fount of wisdom. Heather -- who shall have to assure the spun silk on my bobbins that I'm still fond of it. :) On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Beth Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Pipers' 90/2 Twisted Gloss Silk is a filament thread, and Brenda P recently > measured it at 30w/cm (it's not in the existing edition of Threads for lace > but should be in edition 6 when that comes out) > I'm making lace with that at the moment and it's lovely thread to work with > - much softer and more adaptable than the Guterman spun silks, it will > spread out to fill a bigger space or squash up to fit a smaller one. > Might be quite a slow process getting hold of some in Canada though - > Pipers' is a one-woman business and the silk is hand-reeled to order, so > there's usually a wait even without international post to contend with. > > Beth > in a snowy Cheshire, NW England > > > > Heather wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for a filiment silk thread (not spun silk, > I'm hoping to compare the two!) that is approximately the same size as > Gutterman silk 100/3 (28 wraps / cm) I am struggling mightily with all the > different terms around silk threads (floss silk? Twisted seems promsing. > Unboiled?) > - 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/
