Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature

2005-10-24 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Julie Daliam cotton is not in Edition 3, or Addendum 3 as I've never seen it! If anyone has some.. Looking at the scale of the pricking, and the picture of the lace, I'd guess that it's some sort of pearl cotton. Also if you measure the average pinhole distance (it comes to

Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature

2005-10-24 Thread Carolina de la Guardia
Hello all spiders, I have contacted Maria Jose Jover, a fellow lacemaker designer of the tape lace pattern on the Lace Guild Calendar. Dalia is a cotton thread used here in Spain for crocheting, I do not remember now the manufacturer. I have been told by Maria Jose that if you have any trouble

Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature

2005-10-24 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Caroline I don't think Coats-Anchor make a No 12 crochet cotton but they do make Pearl cotton no 12, which is what I'd already suggested as a substitute for the pricking in the Lace Guild calendar. Brenda On 24 Oct 2005, at 16:40, Carolina de la Guardia wrote: Hello all spiders, I

[lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature

2005-10-23 Thread Julie Ourom
Well, I joined the list within the first month or two of its formation so I could probably be considered a dowager, not that I've ever thought of using that term. Thread help The October pattern in the Lace Guild calendar for a tape lace pumpkin caught my fancy. It's made by a Spanish