Re: [lace] CORRECTION: Kopek/Whirlpool filling is a Woven Spider's Web

2019-02-22 Thread Malvary Cole
Woven spiders web is an embroidery term where a single thread is either woven under and over all the way around, or alternatively goes forward under two bars then doubles back to go back over the one it just came under and the next one ie two bars forward, one back back all the time, with all

[lace] CORRECTION: Kopek/Whirlpool filling is a Woven Spider's Web

2019-02-21 Thread Jeri Ames
Please tell us where the Kopek/Whirlpool name originated - (Author and Book Title, or Teacher). A sampler of my making dated 1974 contains the stitch called Woven Spider's Web.  It is a much older stitch than that. Those of you who own Erica Wilson's 1973 big orange - Embroidery Book - will find