[lace] Re: lace-digest V1 #3837

[Brenda Paternoster]

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Shirlee wrote:

As far as threads go, I seem to remember someone telling me once that if 
you
want to tell if a thread will work for a particular pattern, double it 
over &
hold it up to the pattern & see if however many pins' worth of this thread
will cover the pattern nicely.  Am I remembering this right?  Does this 
make
sense?

Not quite right.
Wind the thread around a pencil or thin strip of card several times so that 
the wraps are lying close together but not overlapping.  If it's a torchon 
pattern the thread will be suitable if 12 wraps cover the distance between 
two footside pinholes.  If it's point ground only 10 wraps.  Bedfordshire/
Cluny, Braid and sectional laces are more trial and error.

For info on my book look at    http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
Threads/Threads.html
USA stockists include Holly van Sciver and Lacy Susan
Brenda

http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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