> > She recently was in Slovenia and took lessons there. She reports that the > bobbins must be wound left-handed (backwards to us right-handed people). > Also, the thread does not stay well unless the bobbins are wound full. > When I was teaching the one thing I did try to insist on was that students wound their bobbins âEnglish styleâ ie clockwise looking down on the head and that also making the hitch âEnglish styleâ. That was so that if I needed to work at their pillow the bobbins would lengthen by turning in the expected direction. Itâs not that clockwise or anti-clockwise is correct or incorrect, itâs just being consistent, but also a left hand hitch on a bobbin wound right handed, or vice-versa just does not hold.
If you are used to Midlands bobbins with the extra groove in the head where the hitch goes you are probably also used to making a double hitch (not two single hitches!) but generally that doesnât work on a bobbin where the hitch is made over wound thread, that only needs a single hitch. But if a bobbin is running low and the wooden neck is exposed than try the double hitch. http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/bobbins/bobbins.html <http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/bobbins/bobbins.html> Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com www.brendapaternoster.co.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
