[lace] Winding bobbins

I’m away from home teaching this week so don’t have my books and notes on threads with me but I do have an article about winding bobbins on my website at https://www.jeanleader.net/techniques/winding.html For me what’s important is not to put any stress on the threads by either adding or

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins with a string

What a wonderful picture you paint Peg, of yucky weather. Having spent a couple of weeks in S E Asia last year I can totally relate to your description. LOL Cheers, Shirley T. - Adelaide, South Australia where we've had the driest June (winter month Downunder) on record. Blue sky and a

[lace] Winding bobbins with a string

Hi Susan... I haven't tried it any other way than what I posted. The way I posted, you wind your bobbins clockwise, and the string goes around the bobbin counter-clockwise.  Perhaps setting the bobbin under the string and bringing it around clockwise would work to wind the bobbin

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins with a string

I think that the direction we wind our bobbins is determined by the "S" or "Z" twist of the thread, not by the type of bobbins being used. Clay Sent from my iPad > On Jul 12, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Malvary Cole wrote: > > Susan wrote --how does this work with Idrija

[lace] Winding bobbins with a string

Oh dear, am I in the weeds again? I thought we are winding Idrija bobbins anti-clockwise when using a bolster. Must re-check my notes. Thank you all! Sincerely, Susan Hottle USA Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins with a string

Susan wrote --how does this work with Idrija bobbins where we are winding anti-clockwise? My question - why do you have to wind them anti-clockwise. I do Idrija all the time and wind them exactly the same as I wind all my bobbins. If you suddenly switch direction of the way you wind, you

[lace] Winding bobbins with a string

Thank you for posting your YouTube video Peg! This is so useful as many of us head off to IOLI convention. The only thing I would ask--how does this work with Idrija bobbins where we are winding anti-clockwise? In addition to the times when my winder is not at hand, that would be the most

[lace] winding bobbins

I have tried to keep out of this as we used to be bobbin makers but however we are not now. You should not need any thing to help you keep normal thread on Midland bobbins. One of the ladies said wind it round a few times over the start of the thread then change hands or go to your winder

[lace] winding bobbins - a comment

Recently bobbin winding was mentioned, and I think I remember a comment about thread not being very neat when wound using a string to turn the bobbin. For newer bobbin lacemakers, the thread on a bobbin is not supposed to be wound neatly with the threads next to each other. The thread should

Re: [lace] winding bobbins - a comment

I wish I had known this before and it makes lots of sense. I have been trying to wind in a tidy fashion but obviously will go for the diagonal method more in the future. I have just wouud silk onto 40 pairs and started the first little tiny bit last night. They would very nicely and a

RE: [lace] winding bobbins - a comment

... When I wind bobbins, I lay the first layer (only) tightly side by side down the thread area to give a solid base to the windings. All the rest of the layers are at an angle, up, down, up, down, etc. If you have had any trouble losing your hitches into the thread, give this winding method a

RE: [lace] winding bobbins - a comment

Patricia Dowden pat...@netwiz.net wrote: I do have to laugh, though! For the first class I ever took, I wound my bobbins fanatically even, like a spool of store bought thread. Unfortunately I wound them in the wrong direction and couldn't keep them on my pillow! Had to rewind the whole

[lace] Winding bobbins - a question of direction

Watching Achim's excellent video, I thought it was interesting the bobbins are wound anticlockwise (as most of the world seems to do) but then they were also shown wound clockwise 'for cotton. Surely if you are going to sometimes use one direction and at other times the other, it would be more

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins - a question of direction

Hello Jacquie, you're perfectly right - it's all a matter of S and Z twist. I tried to avoid that complicated (twisted?) stuff in the video, so I used the simplification of linnen vs. cotton. Since I learned to wind anti-clockwise with linnen thread, I usually use it for all kinds of thread anyway

[lace] Winding bobbins - a question of direction

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Watching Achim's excellent video, I thought it was interesting the bobbins are wound anticlockwise (as most of the world seems to do) I thought clockwise was the norm? Or is it another case like the footside being on the right or left where

[lace] winding bobbins

When I first started lace making I wound my Czech bobbins and since I held them upside down I guess you would say that I was winding them clock wise when turned over again. It didn't cause any problems until I arrived at my first lace course in the UK. With bobbins wound coynter clockwise I

[lace] winding bobbins using string

I've never used the string method, winding bobbins is a good excuse to sit in front of a film all evening :o) Here's a link to a website description http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego/winder.html This is how it was explained in an email to Lace by Janice Blair last year when I was

Re: [lace] winding bobbins using string

Winding With a String: Another variation, with both ends of the winding string attached to things, is on the Lacefairy website. Look up Lacefairy, click on Arachne FAQ's, then on Winding Bobbins--which gives you three choices, one of which is Winding With a String. I find this a very portable

RE: [lace] Winding bobbins with equal amounts of thread...

The disadvantage of winding equal amounts of thread on all the bobbins is that they will all run out at much the same time! I never mind joining thread, after all, I wouldn't expect to knit a jumper without a join or fifteen at least. Liz Pass In Poole, Dorset,UK -Original Message-

[lace] Winding bobbins with equal amounts of thread...

That's another big problem I have - I can't tell what length of thread I have on a bobbin, unless I unwind it all and stretch it out across the room or something, but that will often just end with a big mess of tangled thread... When winding bobbins for small projects, the process of

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins with equal amounts of thread...

In a message dated 30/07/2004 12:41:56 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wind the mate with 8 rotations off the first bobbin, and your pair is equal - and you don't have to deal with piles of thread getting tangled and dirty But make sure you take the thread off onto the second

[lace] Winding bobbins

A lady in my lace class has a bobbin winder made by her son which he found in a magazine described as a medieval bobbin winder. There are two wooden uprights held about three quarters of an inch apart by a block between them at the bottom. They're mounted on a flat piece of wood which is clamped

[lace] winding bobbins with a string

and cool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marni Harang [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] winding bobbins on a string I too use the string method to wind my bobbins, however I don't tie both ends of the string. I secure one end to a convenient knob, handle, my

Re: [lace] Winding bobbins was Re: Working with silk thread

In a message dated 28/09/2003 19:56:46 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Lorri - Yes, I find the counter-clockwise wind works better for the Z-twist. And then you'll have to do your hitch differently too... essentially, I hold the bobbin with the head on the left instead