Thank you all—Arachne is a wonderful forum & today it is Thread University!
They say bought lessons are better than taught lessons & I bought a doozy. I
noticed early on that I didn’t like the texture but plowed ahead anyway. Oh
well, lesson learned & unlikely to be forgotten. This was
Here’s a thought for the too-busy beginner: read! A large part of
learning lace is learning about lace. You don’t have to steep yourself in the
fashionable laces of the 19th century—there’s a tremendous amount of
contemporary work being done today, easily found on YouTube, not to
> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:43, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
>
> After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I
> wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr
> & would appreciate some constructive comments.
Susan,
Looks like you’ve
Hi Susan
'Tatting thread' is DMC Special Dentelles 80 which is identical to Cordonnet
80 which is only a tiny smidgin finer than Cordonnet 70 - so in effect you did
use tatting thread.
The gimp thread in traditional Bedfordshire lace is a softer but round thread,
the difference in thickness to
