Thanks, Nancy & Anne. That’s what I thought, plus that the early machines
spun cotton and wool, is that correct? And yes, I am not close to my library
either, but Pat Earnshaw’s thread book is subtitled ‘From Source to
Sink’ if I remember correctly? I also had understood that early flax
produced
Yes most definitely the thread for lace was hand spun. The early needle laces
were made using hand spun linens which have long fibres.
Anna from a windy Sydney who has just learnt to spin wool
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> On 1 Nov 2022, at 9:57 pm, Vicki Bradford wrote:
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> Hi Devon & all,
> I’m not
Hi Vicki et al.,
The very fine thread in the late 17th and early 18th C was all handspun
linen, made from flax from cultivars that produced very fine and long
fibers. These cultivars were completely destroyed during the French
revolution, so very fine thread could not be produced again until fine
Hi Devon & all,
I’m not sure if this will make it to the list because I’m one of those
hangers-on still using AOL, but on a somewhat off-topic point, I was taken by
Devon’s comments about how fine some lace threads were. While visiting the
V some years ago, the same thoughts occurred to me. As a
