[lace] Re: pin sizes etc
Dear Tamara and other readers, Some years back, when I was still dabbling with Point Ground, I *did* use a different -- colour-headed -- pin, to hang a gimp from. For the same reason that Clay mentioned -- to remind myself to remove it, before it got locked beyond the ability to tension the gimp properly. But that happened only once-twice per repeat, so I never needed more than a couple of those. Having to use a thicker pin for every picot... Yuck. The "pins" I use to hang in gimp are actually sewing needles with a bead glued over the eye. I remove them after only one or two pins. It's never been an issue. However, with the use of bigger pins for picots, I should have been more clear. Because I am talking point ground laces here, the picots are only right around the edge, and as such you simply end up with the larger pins along both footside and headside as well as forming a line where you begin. It's no problem at all. I then end up pushing those pins right in and removing the small Withof pins as I go and bringing them up to the front. So when the work is finished, there are simply the larger pins to remove which go separately into their own box. David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: pin sizes etc
On Nov 2, 2008, at 4:31, Leonard Bazar wrote: Another trick for making it easier to sew into pin holes is to put an extra twist or two on the pairs making the pin hole [...] Advisable for those, like me, who manage to mix pins [...] That -- twisting "extra" -- is what I've been doing too, and for the same reason (keeping track of more than one size of pin is just too much effort). I was greatly reassured to see, on a close study of (photos) the very early laces, that a "well defined" (up to 8 twists) pinhole was used -- by lacemakers far more skilled than I am -- even in place of a picot, 500yrs ago... Some years back, when I was still dabbling with Point Ground, I *did* use a different -- colour-headed -- pin, to hang a gimp from. For the same reason that Clay mentioned -- to remind myself to remove it, before it got locked beyond the ability to tension the gimp properly. But that happened only once-twice per repeat, so I never needed more than a couple of those. Having to use a thicker pin for every picot... Yuck. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
