Dear Arachne friends, Maybe this will help too:
Before the invention of the color code, learning lace making was a slow process. Thanks to the Bruges color code, this goes a lot faster. The color code was developed shortly before the first world war in the Bruges lace school and belonged to the lesson program. Ever since the rise of the making bobbin lace as a leisure activity in the sixties of the last century, the color code has gradually conquered much of Europe. On the work schedule, which indicates the wire run, the crosses of the pairs are indicated in a color that determines what kind of stitch should be made. This has made learning lace making much simpler. Anyone who has learned to read fluently the color code lacemaking during the base year, can afterwards in a quick way learn a new kind of lace. Each stitch, gimp, plait or tally has his own color. The lace maker only must follow the work schedule and, thanks to the colors, knows what to do. This is the color code used in Belgium and in a large part of Europe. Green: half stitch Purple: linen stitch Red: double stitch Yellow: gimp Yellow in Cluny lace: Venetian plait yellow leaf, square or triangle: tally Orange: Dieppe stitch Brown: twisted half stitch or enclosed pin stitch Blue: plait Turquoise: turn-over stitch In tulle laces, the ground can be drawn in green, orange and brown. This depends on the kind of tulle lace. ( texte Veerle Meersschaut) Happy lacemaking. Greet Rome Brugge2018 vzw www.worldlacecongressbrugge2018.be - 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/
