Re: [lace] Starting a Scroll

2012-03-13 Thread pene piip
Thanks for help received from fellow Arachneans. I decided to use the diagrams on pages 35-36 of Bridget Cook's Practical Skills in BL describing 'a wide scroll start'. I just had to mentally reverse the diagrams as my scroll was going in the opposite direction. Today I started finished the

[lace] Starting a scroll

2012-02-26 Thread Jean Nathan
If you can have (or can borrow from your lace guild) the DVD or video Brugge Bloemwerk with Patricia Bury both starting and finishing scrolls are shown very clearly. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

[lace] Starting a Scroll

2012-02-25 Thread pene piip
Please can anyone direct me to a book that shows how to start a scroll. I've found 2 methods in Bridget Cook's Practical Skills another different way in Ulrike Löhr's 400 Tricks I'm going to dig up a Duchesse book. But I just wonder if someone's recently worked a scroll can help to me.

Re: [lace] Starting a Scroll

2012-02-25 Thread pene piip
Sorry for not provide more detail. I wanted to make another Easter Egg from Annelies Kirst's 2nd book. It's one of the patterns with a butterfly labeled Duchesse-Ei on page 18. I've enlarged it a bit I want to work it in coloured thread. She provides a diagram for the pivot turn on the bottom

[lace] starting a scroll

2012-02-25 Thread Lorelei Halley
Pene There is a book by Rombach-de-Kievid BRUGS BLOEMWERK, 1984, Terra Zutphen pages 11-12, which also has the Bruges scroll. But it is in Dutch, which I can't read. I have to rely on the diagrams and the Sutton book is about the same. Are you getting holes at the pin, or in the middle of the

RE: [lace] Starting a Scroll

2012-02-25 Thread Sue
Hi Pen, Try Milanese Lace An Introduction by Patricia Read and Lucy Kinkaid there is a very good section on starting and finishing scrolls in that on Page 20 I found this book indispensable when learning Milanese. ISBN 07134 5707 4 Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to

Re: [lace] Starting a Scroll

2012-02-25 Thread robinlace
pene piip p...@eggo.org wrote: Please can anyone direct me to a book that shows how to start a scroll. Pat Read has instructions in her first book on Milanese Lace (can't remember the exact title but some Arachnean can, I'm sure). Do different bobbin lace types use different methods of

[lace] starting a scroll

2012-02-25 Thread Lorelei Halley
Robin All the bobbin part laces that have scrolls as part of their stock of motifs work them in different ways. Not wildly different ways. Honiton, Duchess, Withof, Bruges Bloomwork -- all different. And too diffcult to explain in an email. The answer would be like writing a small book. What