Thanks for weighing in on this issue Brenda! I’ve annotated my Threads for Lace accordingly. My search has identified all kinds of linen threads/yarns that I’d never heard of. Most of them are heavier weight to please the knitters & book binders. BUT, perhaps I’ve hit a nerve here. Lacemakers are customers too & one might wonder if someone wants to please us! Has any thread company tried a subscription model? What’s the minimum run? There should be reasonable demand for linen 130 to 140/2—40wcm seems like sewing thread. I’m not searching for 300! In the meantime, I will test my design in cotton so I can move ahead in the scale that I selected. Francis is both charming & helpful so I will see what he says about the linen. I do think the “grabby” nature of linen would produce a superior result. Thanks again to everyone who has corresponded & added to this discussion. Sincerely, Susan Hottle, South Florida USA
Sent from my iPad >> On Nov 2, 2020, at 4:51 AM, Brenda Paternoster <[email protected]> >> wrote: > Knox’s and J Harris & Sons were discontinued many years ago, as were DMC > linen threads and the finer C&F. I thought that the best chance of still > getting a fine linen thread would be from Bart and Francis, but their 130/2 > isn’t showing on their website. Several years ago they were looking at > producing a very fine linen, but it doesn’t appear to have been a successful > project. - 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/
