Her obituary claims it was written in the 1940s.
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I have a copy of Elsie Gubserâs âBobbin Laceâ - where she explains that
Brussels Lace must be made with very fine thread and that for her sample she
had used Knoxâs 150/2 lace thread, which "will have to do until finer thread
is on the market.â Well, Mrs. Gubser - weâre still waiting!
Dear Sue,
I have just found a nice little motif pattern I want to make for my
Mum and the pattern quotes madeira tanne 50 (which is 39 wraps and
is 2Z) in Brenda's book. I want to use my gutterman silk which says
it is 27 wraps and 3Z). Would it be sensible to print the pattern
out slightly
Thank you David,
Have scanned and printed the pattern at 140 % which is much larger than I
expected it to be but will certainly be easier to work than the original
size, g. While I was there I copied it at several different sizes to see
what they looked like. One of them I will pencil in
I have just found a nice little motif pattern I want to make for my Mum and
the pattern quotes madeira tanne 50 (which is 39 wraps and is 2Z) in
Brenda's book. I want to use my gutterman silk which says it is 27 wraps and
3Z). Would it be sensible to print the pattern out slightly bigger for
Hi
Thank you for explaining that to me it all makes sense now. The penny has
finally dropped and it is now very clear as to how these threads work.
Hugs
Wendy St Dogmaels
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Probably the most useful book you can buy is Brenda Paternoster's book
Threads for Lace. It list (almost) every thread that is available and some
that are no longer made. She lists how many wraps there are to named threads
and then, in the second part of the book, lists all the threads with the
I would have thought that the 80 would have been
thicker than the 100 but it wasn't, am I then right in thinking that
the /2 or
/3 makes a lot of difference and it is that that gives you the
thickness not
the first number.
Hi Wendy:
Both numbers combine to give you the thickness. Here's
Hi Adele
Super explanation.
The specific gravity of the different fibres does have a small effect
on the size of finished thread, but cotton and linen are measured by
different sizes of hank.
With cotton: CC = Cotton Count, occasionally NeC = Number English Cotton
it's the number of 840
