Hello All! Just wanted to add--if you use a piece of waxed paper between the
pricking your cork pad, the needle seems to stay clean free of gunk. Since
I don't always have waxed paper with me, I tried using the plasticky paper that
peels off the film itself. It worked for me too. My
No one has mentioned this, perhaps Iâm the only one with this experience?
Back in the days when we didnât have scanners and our computers ran on tapes
there was no option but to draw out our prickings by hand. I well remember
the first big project I made, it was a doily. I had just taken it
Hello All! After searching in my thread cave, I found some linen thread
suitable for the Skansk workshop next weekend. Since I'm from the what's
white??? school of lacemaking, I selected navy blue. The teacher is bringing
orange pricking card for me so I suppose it would work for black
Re: it has a sheen that can make it less easy to find pinholes accurately
I always use a pan scrub (the ones with sponge backing) to rub off the shine
- problem solved.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Dear Arachnids
The manilla card I used when I started lacemaking !! years ago was originally
produced, under the name Elephantind Presspahn, for electrical insulation. At
the same time only straw filled pillows were available and the stiff card was
necessary to stop pins from leaning sideways due
In a message dated 28/05/2010 14:35:26 GMT Daylight Time,
hottl...@neo.rr.com writes:
Now a question--has anyone used a cereal box as an inexpensive
alternative for pricking card?
All the time under either graph paper or a photocopy pricking. Not so
often if I want to ink onto the card. It's
Jacquie wrote
And another
example would be architects linen which was obviously never made for needle
lacers.
Now that's something I have experience of :o) I rescued a roll from going in
the skip at work when we were clearing out the store room. It hadn't been used
in Drawing Offices for
I understand that it's what is used for electronic circuit boards.
However, many years ago in the late 1960s when I worked in a lab for Ministry
of Defence in Woolwich Arsenal testing papers and boards we used to test
something called 'glazed board' which used as casing for ammunition
My question on what the intended use is for the card that we use for
pricking only got two responses - Brenda confirmed my thoughts on card for
cartridge cases, and Vivienne Walton from Presencia/Biggins emailed me
privately and said they buy it as pattern cutting card, which they
understand
We had a new member join our lace group yesterday. She has never made lace
before, but said it's always something she thought was absolutley wonderful
and would like to learn it some day. Now she is. Our teacher had spangled
some bobbins for her, but had left a few for her to do for herself so
Back in the late 1960s I worked for MOD in Woolwich Arsenal testing
papers and boards. We quite often had glazed board which was used
for cartridge cases in for testing.
After all tests were completed and satisfactory any excess was disposed
of - I could have brought home loads of pricking
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