Hi All,
I've been watching this thread with interest. I'm with Alex on this one I
really like to work on pricking card without sticky plastic, I use Indian ink
and a mapping pen for marking. One reason is that I find it gives extra
resistance when placing and removing pins, which doesn't do my RSI much good.
Secondly I find that marking the pattern by hand gives me an opportunity to
really look at the design before I start. I have no problem with anyone using
film, it just isn't for me.
I also prefer a straw pillow, I don't find the additional weight an issue.Â
Perhaps I'm just a Luddite ;D
Jane
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 13:54, Lyn Bailey <[email protected]>
wrote:
I suspect that prickings, except for those specialized ones where the
sewings
are many, and you have to dig into the pricking, can be used more than one
thinks. Certainly a simple photocopy on photocopy paper can be used more
than
once, probably several times. I remember that David Collyer once wrote
about
the many, many times he had used a simply created pricking. I forget the
nature of the paper, but it wasn�� anything special. And I simply
photocopied a Bucks pattern onto card stock, nothing fancy, and no plastic,
put it around a thin travel pillow roller and made more than 75 inches of
lace
on it. It still can be used. The parchment prickings that we see
mutilated
and difficult to use, needing a repricking with a view to straightening out
all the misplaced pinholes was probably used hundreds of times, if what they
say about a lacemaker making the same pattern for years and years, working
all
day at it. Very few of us will ever use a pricking to that extent.
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where I am sick of the clouds that have
been around for at least a week. If only it would rain, and then the sun
actually come out and stay out, instead of all this lowering cloud cover most
of the time.
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