To: Jane Partridge; lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Downton Lace
Got it! Just seems like some waste would have been involved by having what
would amount to "raw ends", start & finish. From an economic standpoint,
preventing any waste of completed lace would have been desirable, hen
Got it! Just seems like some waste would have been involved by having what
would amount to "raw ends", start & finish. From an economic standpoint,
preventing any waste of completed lace would have been desirable, hence my
question. The start of my sample didn't look tidy & if I was the
I’m also thinking about how lace was traded - lacemakers were paid by the
length they made, and they didn’t make 50 yards of it in one long length the
way machines do. It was cut off when the tally-man came, so all lace would be
in fairly short pieces - of varying lengths. Looking at the
From the Downton Lace that I have done, and patterns that I have seen, all
the lace is lengths, not motifs. I've just checked the book I have by
Shelly Canning of Downton Lace from Salisbury Cathedral, there are no
corners either.
So you don't need to have pairs hung on one by one. When I
on the table.
Jane Partridge
From: owner-l...@arachne.com on behalf of
hottl...@neo.rr.com
Sent: 30 January 2019 20:21
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Downton Lace
Just finished my first tiny sample after noticing that this lace begins with a
clump
Just finished my first tiny sample after noticing that this lace begins with a
clump of single bobbins! I ended up with a start similar to Rosaline except
with four groups of rolled bobbins instead of one. It's peculiar as there is no
obvious place to hide the beginning tails when the work is
