Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread robinlace
Basically, the lace has to extend beyond each end of each side of the 
fabric by the amount of the lace's width.  That's because the lace on 
side A sticks out by that much, so the lace on side B must be long 
enough to get to the outside edge of the lace on side A.

Measure the width of the lace.  That's "X".
Measure the width of the fabric.  That's "Y".
Each side must have Y + 2X length of lace.
Total length of lace is 4 x (Y + 2X).

e.g., if fabric is 10" square and lace is 2.5" wide:
X = 2.5"
Y = 10"
each side needs 10 + 2.5 + 2.5 = 15"
total needed is 4 x 15 = 60"
Actually, you should add a bit for "give" at the corners.  Having 
exactly 4x(Y+2X) will make the outer edge of the lace just barely make 
it around the hankie.  Adding a bit more will allow the outside edge of 
the lace to ruffle a bit around the corner.

Robin P.
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(formerly  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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From: Viv Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Since I've finished the garter in time I'm hoping to make a 
> handkerchieffor the groom's Mum (What do mothers do at 
> weddings?!!) and have to
> confess that after 7 and a bit years of lace making I haven't ever
> joined lace to a piece of fabric. I'd appreciate it if someone could
> advise how long to make an edging for a hankie if I'm using a pricking
> without corners

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RE: [lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread Avital
If I had a choice of cottons, 40s and 50s would probably be my first choice,
too. Unfortunately, they're not readily available in the Jerusalem area,
although Miriam tells me that she's seen some in the Tel Aviv area. So I will
stick with the coarser perle 8. But it's not as though I'm trying to make
microscopic lilies, after all!  I was thinking that a bunch of larger oya
would make an interesting brooch. A large carnation that I did in variegated
perle 8 turned out quite well, except for the fact that I inadvertently made the
decreases on one side of the petals until I realised my mistake.

Avital

> I've had very good luck with the #40 and #50 "crochet" cottons, like
> Flora and those Turkish variegated ones (Altan Basaak, or similar
> names).  Not that my oya came out lovely, but that's because I'm a
> novice and still have a lot of practice to get tension and loop size
> uniform.
>
> Robin P.

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Re: [lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread laura sandison
I finally had a chance to pull my oya/bebilla pieces out.  The old colored and 
finely knotted piece is older cotton and worked on the horse hair.  My newer 
pieces on head scarves are the stiff nylon. The scarves are very loopy and not 
as "fluid" as the cotton, althought the cotton is stiffer.  I never really 
noticed the thread itself.  I had them for the lovely designs!  Thanks for 
inpirint me to get them out!
   
  Laura Sandison
  Lace! in New Mexico, USA


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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Laceandbits
I think that Brenda has been talking about gathering round the corners all 
along, not mitreing, as it's easier and quicker to do neatly.

Rochelle, if you think about it, the "bit extra to make sure the lace will go 
around the corners sitting flat." has to be enough so the "lace goes past the 
end of the hankie a distance equivalent to the width of the lace, turns 90 
degrees, and goes down the next side of the hankie (again a distance equivalent 
to the width of the lace) before the footside actually reaches the hankie 
again" exactly as Donna said.  Whether you plan to mitre or gather the width of 
the lace increases the hankie size by twice that width.

Jacquie

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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Clay Blackwell
While I agree with Donna on the explanation of the math, I disagree with
the suggestion that the corner is "mitered", but then I could be
misunderstanding the term.  What I envisioned was four pieces of lace
joined (sewn together) at the corner in a mitered fashion, much like a
picture frame.

This is a personal preference, and I don't mean to be rude to anyone.   But
when I see a handkerchief with a lace edge and the corners have been joined
in a mitered fashion, I immediately think "machine lace".  When I've gone
to the trouble to make lace by hand, and the trouble or expense of making
or finding a handkerchief that is appropriate in size and worthy of being
gilded with handmade lace, I certainly don't want to whack my lace into
bits and sew it back together - anything I come up with using that approach
is entirely unsatisfactory, IMO.

But the same math gives you enough to gather the lace at the corner and
yes, you DO need to use the width of the lace as your measure, because each
side of the handkerchief has to be treated as though that lace around the
corner is part of the width of the handkerchief, or the lace will "cup"
because the corner has been measured short.  The result is a continuous
piece of lace which curves gracefully around each corner.

Early on in the history of lace, all corners were gathered.  But as lace
became more and more complex and "showy", the corners became an integral
part of the design.  So we are fortunate that we can choose to do it either
way, and not be slaves to very much outdated fashion!!

Clay

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> [Original Message]
> From: Donna Hrynkiw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Date: 1/30/2006 5:29:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [lace] Lace without a corner
>
> > Brenda Paternoster wrote:
> > > Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
> > > times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
> > > absolute minimum.  Round up so that you have an even number or 
> > > repeats, and preferably a multiple of four.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/01/2006 02:09:37 PM:
> > Okay, you lost me on that one. Can you go through the math again
slower? 
>
> > It seems like one or the other but why both measurements?
> > Ruth
>
> Let me see if I can tackle this.
>
> To calculate how much lace you need to edge a handkerchief with mitred 
> lace at the corners, you need:
> > > Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
> > > times the width of the hankie
>
> Most hankies are square (four sides, all the same length). We need four 
> times the length of one side of the hankie -- one for each side of the 
> hankie.
>
> > > PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
> > > absolute minimum.
>
> When you mitre lace at a corner, the headside of the lace goes past the 
> end of the hankie a distance equivalent to the width of the lace, turns
90 
> degrees, and goes down the next side of the hankie (again a distance 
> equivalent to the width of the lace) before the footside actually reaches 
> the hankie again. That's two width-of-the-lace distances for every
corner. 
> Four corners times two widths equals eight widths.
>
> > > Round up so that you have an even number or 
> > > repeats
>
> I'm not sure why an even number of repeats is necessary. Brenda?
>
> > > and preferably a multiple of four.
>
> Ideally, each side and corner of the hankie will look exactly like all
the 
> other sides and corners. The best way to do this is have the same number 
> of repeats on each side or in each corner. Four sides of the hankie means 
> for every repeat you add on one side should also be added on the other 
> three sides as well. Four sides = multiples of four repeats.
>
> Donna in Surrey B.C. Canada
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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Rochelle Sutherland
I got back to Viv off list but thought I would wade in
after all. The simplest way, which may not appeal to
everyone I admit, is to have gathered corners, and you
only need to make the length of each side, and a bit
extra to make sure the lace will go around the corners
sitting flat.

Just another option from a knitted lace person where
we don't have corners on edgings.

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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Ruth
I know I didn't start this discussion, but I want to thank everyone who 
has replied. Everyone benefits when knowledge is shared :D


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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Once the lace is attached the total width of the hankie is fabric plus 
two widths of lace.  Multiply that by four and you get 4 times the 
width of the fabric plus 8 times the width of the lace.


So if your hankie is, say, 10" x 10" and the lace is 1.5" wide the 
overall size of the finished article is 13" along each side which means 
that you will need (13 x 4)" = 52" of lace, minimum.  If you make it 
any shorter (for those measurements) there won't be enough to gather 
around each corner.


Brenda

On 30 Jan 2006, at 22:09, Ruth wrote:

Okay, you lost me on that one. Can you go through the math again 
slower? It seems like one or the other but why both measurements?


Thanks for sharing your knowledge :D

Brenda Paternoster wrote:


Hello Viv

Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
absolute minimum.  Round up so that you have an even number or 
repeats, and preferably a multiple of four.


Brenda

On 30 Jan 2006, at 20:36, Viv Dewar wrote:


Dear friends
Since I've finished the garter in time I'm hoping to make a 
handkerchief

for the groom's Mum (What do mothers do at weddings?!!) and have to
confess that after 7 and a bit years of lace making I haven't ever
joined lace to a piece of fabric. I'd appreciate it if someone could
advise how long to make an edging for a hankie if I'm using a 
pricking

without corners. I know someone posted this recently and, I'm sorry,
I've managed to delete the comments.
Thanks
Viv
In Worcestershire UK



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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Donna Hrynkiw
> Brenda Paternoster wrote:
> > Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
> > times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
> > absolute minimum.  Round up so that you have an even number or 
> > repeats, and preferably a multiple of four.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/01/2006 02:09:37 PM:
> Okay, you lost me on that one. Can you go through the math again slower? 

> It seems like one or the other but why both measurements?
> Ruth

Let me see if I can tackle this.

To calculate how much lace you need to edge a handkerchief with mitred 
lace at the corners, you need:
> > Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
> > times the width of the hankie

Most hankies are square (four sides, all the same length). We need four 
times the length of one side of the hankie -- one for each side of the 
hankie.

> > PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
> > absolute minimum.

When you mitre lace at a corner, the headside of the lace goes past the 
end of the hankie a distance equivalent to the width of the lace, turns 90 
degrees, and goes down the next side of the hankie (again a distance 
equivalent to the width of the lace) before the footside actually reaches 
the hankie again. That's two width-of-the-lace distances for every corner. 
Four corners times two widths equals eight widths.

> > Round up so that you have an even number or 
> > repeats

I'm not sure why an even number of repeats is necessary. Brenda?

> > and preferably a multiple of four.

Ideally, each side and corner of the hankie will look exactly like all the 
other sides and corners. The best way to do this is have the same number 
of repeats on each side or in each corner. Four sides of the hankie means 
for every repeat you add on one side should also be added on the other 
three sides as well. Four sides = multiples of four repeats.

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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Ruth
Okay, you lost me on that one. Can you go through the math again slower? 
It seems like one or the other but why both measurements?


Thanks for sharing your knowledge :D

Brenda Paternoster wrote:


Hello Viv

Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
absolute minimum.  Round up so that you have an even number or 
repeats, and preferably a multiple of four.


Brenda

On 30 Jan 2006, at 20:36, Viv Dewar wrote:


Dear friends
Since I've finished the garter in time I'm hoping to make a handkerchief
for the groom's Mum (What do mothers do at weddings?!!) and have to
confess that after 7 and a bit years of lace making I haven't ever
joined lace to a piece of fabric. I'd appreciate it if someone could
advise how long to make an edging for a hankie if I'm using a pricking
without corners. I know someone posted this recently and, I'm sorry,
I've managed to delete the comments.
Thanks
Viv
In Worcestershire UK



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Re: [lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Brenda Paternoster

Hello Viv

Measure the side of the hankie and the width of the lace.  You need 4 
times the width of the hankie PLUS 8 times the width of the lace - 
absolute minimum.  Round up so that you have an even number or repeats, 
and preferably a multiple of four.


Brenda

On 30 Jan 2006, at 20:36, Viv Dewar wrote:


Dear friends
Since I've finished the garter in time I'm hoping to make a 
handkerchief

for the groom's Mum (What do mothers do at weddings?!!) and have to
confess that after 7 and a bit years of lace making I haven't ever
joined lace to a piece of fabric. I'd appreciate it if someone could
advise how long to make an edging for a hankie if I'm using a pricking
without corners. I know someone posted this recently and, I'm sorry,
I've managed to delete the comments.
Thanks
Viv
In Worcestershire UK

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[lace] Lace without a corner

2006-01-30 Thread Viv Dewar
Dear friends 
Since I've finished the garter in time I'm hoping to make a handkerchief
for the groom's Mum (What do mothers do at weddings?!!) and have to
confess that after 7 and a bit years of lace making I haven't ever
joined lace to a piece of fabric. I'd appreciate it if someone could
advise how long to make an edging for a hankie if I'm using a pricking
without corners. I know someone posted this recently and, I'm sorry,
I've managed to delete the comments.
Thanks
Viv
In Worcestershire UK

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[lace] Garter - Lace finished but big should it be?

2006-01-30 Thread Viv Dewar
Dear friends
After a false start I’ve completed the lace for the garter for a
cousin’s wedding.
I started using a bought pricking that made a really beautiful lace but
I thought it looked to wide to make a good garter & I started to panic
about finishing it in time for the wedding. The revised design is of my
own making – I did the design after the NEC lace fair on 4/12/2005, and
since I’ve made just over a metre in length in the lace.
It’s “joined up” with the ends sewn BUT how long do I make the garter?
I’ve asked the prospective bride to measure how “round” her thigh is at
the relevant point. I’ve got some gold elastic to weave through to make
the garter & what I need to decide is how much less the elastic length
(thigh minus ? cms!) needs to be to give the best balance between
comfort (ie not so tight that it digs into the flesh) and security (ie
not so loose that it falls down)
All comments are welcome
Thanks
Viv
In Worcestershire UK

Ps
Any suggestions for using a piece of lace about 3½ ins wide and 16ins
long in wedding colours (pale cream, blue & gold) will be gratefully
received!

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Re: [lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread robinlace
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> So I'm not going to use 80 cotton any more for oya. I actually 
> managed to get better results with cheap polyester sewing thread! 
> I think I may use perle 8, even though it's quite coarse, because 
> it comes in so many colours. Or I may unply some embroidery floss 
> and try making oya with single strands.

I've had very good luck with the #40 and #50 "crochet" cottons, like 
Flora and those Turkish variegated ones (Altan Basaak, or similar 
names).  Not that my oya came out lovely, but that's because I'm a 
novice and still have a lot of practice to get tension and loop size 
uniform.

Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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RE: [lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread Avital
Foam rubber? That is too funny! I'd love to see that photo.

Seriously, since they're trying to earn a living by selling oya, using cheap
materials makes sense. Nylon thread is cheaper than natural fibers and probably
last almost indefinitely. The oya on my scarf are *extremely* sturdy. They could
easily withstand frequent laundering.

Avital

Bev wrote:
> I think you are right. I don't have any new oya to prove it, but IIRC
> in the article on bebilla in
> "In Search of a Curious Mind" (an Interweave Press publication, now
> o.o.p.) there is a photo of a scarf trimmed with the traditional
> shapes, so from a distance it looks like any other, up close it is
> tiny pieces of foam rubber sewn to the edge of the scarf. The article
> was written prior to 1990; the comment was that more readily available
> materials had taken place of the traditional. I would think that that
> hadn't changed over the last decades. My copy is deep in the lace room
> library and if I can locate it, will confirm. The articles in the book
> were well-documented.
>
> --
> bye for now
> Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)>

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[lace] Oyas - samples made within the last two years.

2006-01-30 Thread C. Johnson
Oyas - if someone want's to post them, I will be glad to share a scan of
several OYA scarves that I received from Turkey in the last two years from
my brother.  One is with beading.  He told me these were newly made, and
done with a crochet hook.

The thread used is also in the scan and a copy of the wrapper is there also.
These are definitely made with 100% nylon.

Have a Great Day!
Susie Johnson
Morris, Illinois
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Re: [lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread bevw
Regarding:
> Finally, I reread the recent PieceWork article on oya and noticed that the 
> oya in the last picture (the headscarf belonging to Linda Ligon) had a very 
> 'plastic' look. So that's why I think that these coarse nylon threads are 
> being used for oya in Turkey. Maybe someone has a few oya at home and can 
> confirm or deny my guess? >

I think you are right. I don't have any new oya to prove it, but IIRC
in the article on bebilla in
"In Search of a Curious Mind" (an Interweave Press publication, now
o.o.p.) there is a photo of a scarf trimmed with the traditional
shapes, so from a distance it looks like any other, up close it is
tiny pieces of foam rubber sewn to the edge of the scarf. The article
was written prior to 1990; the comment was that more readily available
materials had taken place of the traditional. I would think that that
hadn't changed over the last decades. My copy is deep in the lace room
library and if I can locate it, will confirm. The articles in the book
were well-documented.

--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com

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RE: [lace] Chocolate party

2006-01-30 Thread Sue
O Patsy, that sounds good to me.
Happy chocolate eating
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK

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Subject: [lace] Chocolate party


Hi,

Did that subject line get your attention?

Today I went to a luncheon for the Queen Mums of the local area of Red
Hatters.  One of the ladies sitting at my table was telling us about a
Chocolate Party that her group was having soon.  Since "Lace Makers" all
love chocolate, my ears perked up.  Any mention of Chocolate always gets my
attention. : )  It seems that once a year they hold this party.  Every one
brings a dish made with chocolate.  A cake, cookies, etc.  It just has to be
Chocolate.  This sounded like a lot of fun.  The only draw back she said was
that some over dosed on Chocolate.

This sounded like fun for a special event or an extra get together that you
group might have.  So I decided to pass it on.

Patsy A. Goodman
Chula Vista, CA, USA
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[lace] Oya eureka!

2006-01-30 Thread spindexr
I guess that should really be "Bibilla eureka" to be consistent, since both 
words are Greek, but "Oya eureka" sounded better.  I wish I could think of 
something clever to say in Turkish, but my knowledge of Turkish begins with 
Ataturk and ends with 'teshekerederem."

I finally managed to make some respectable diamonds and pyramids. Oya are 
something I try to do every few years, when the mood strikes. I can't say I'm a 
beginner, exactly, because I've made a couple Armenian needlelace doilies and 
can do the knot stitch in my sleep, but it does take more patience to do those 
itty bitty flowers.

I wanted to make a somewhat radical suggestion: don't try using 80 tatting 
thread (pace Gretchen). I tried several different threads and the DMC size 80 
tatting cotton was by far the most difficult to use. It tangled abominably. The 
thread 'remembers' the tangles and develops kinks in the same places. It's 
about the right thickness, but that's all. I tried a couple balls of 80 cotton 
in case one of those balls was unusually twisted. They both tangled a great 
deal, even with short lengths of thread. They just would not 'lie' properly in 
the knot.

Now that I've been looking at more magazine articles on oya, I'm guessing that 
they're not using DMC 80 in Turkey. First, DMC products are very expensive in 
this part of the world. I live in a major city and can find DMC 8 perle cotton 
and 6-strand embroidery floss fairly easily, but I would really have to hunt 
for, say, DMC 12 perle cotton. I've seen DMC 80 in only one shop and only for 
brief periods when someone was giving a hardanger course. It's not at all easy 
to find (and forget about other thread sizes like 30, 50, 100, etc.!) So I 
would guess that it's probably not a common item in small Turkish villages.

Second, I have a Turkish scarf with oya made of a fairly coarse nylon thread. 
When I bought it, the store owner claimed that the oya were made of silk. I 
raised one eyebrow and said, somewhat sarcastically, "Oh really? Would you let 
me do a burn test?" She was amenable because she had a spool of the thread in 
her desk. She lit a match, we watched the thread melt into a little plastic 
bead, and she agreed that it wasn't silk. As if the 'stiff as a board' feel 
wasn't a clue

Third, I saw some Turkish threads in one of our larger craft shops. I wasn't 
too interested in them at the time because they were clearly nylon (not even 
polyester), but I recall that the only word I recognized on the label was 
'oya.' Hm. I'll have to pick up a couple spools next time I'm there.

Finally, I reread the recent PieceWork article on oya and noticed that the oya 
in the last picture (the headscarf belonging to Linda Ligon) had a very 
'plastic' look. So that's why I think that these coarse nylon threads are being 
used for oya in Turkey. Maybe someone has a few oya at home and can confirm or 
deny my guess?

So I'm not going to use 80 cotton any more for oya. I actually managed to get 
better results with cheap polyester sewing thread! I think I may use perle 8, 
even though it's quite coarse, because it comes in so many colours. Or I may 
unply some embroidery floss and try making oya with single strands.

Best wishes,

Avital

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Re: [lace] Graph paper

2006-01-30 Thread delia.palin

Hello Janice!

If you click on each of the boxes in turn, I think especially the last one, 
you can change the way the graph/grid is arranged on the paper.  Hope this 
helps.  If not, email the man who owns the site - Jeremy (his email address 
is on there somewhere, if  not, I can find it and let you have it) - and he 
is very helpful.  Hope you manage it OK.


Dee 


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