Hi Ilske,
I've not made lace with the bamboo threads, but I have purchased the fiber,
spun it into yarn on my spinning wheel and then knit up the yarn. I didn't
care for the end result. The fiber didn't feel great in my hands for spinning
which is important to me as it's a very tactile hobby,
Tamara P Duvall wrote:
... I'm looking for the origin of to get one's goat
(meaning: to annoy). So far, all I've been able to find
is American, early 20th c. Yet, I have a feeling that the
phrase is older than that and, possibly, of UK origin...
Nobody knows, as Michael Quinion explains at
