One difficulty with point ground bobbin lace is that every
pair splits up at each pin.
The 's Gravenmoer lace I recently took used Dieppe ground (CTT pin
CTT) in which each pair just zig-zags between the pinholes, but
carries straight down the lace rather than crossing at an angle. There
are some lovely examples of using colour in this ground lace.
Another fun way to introduce colour is to have tallies in contrasting
colour. You can either lay in a coloured pair at the pin that starts
the tally, using one of the threads as a weaver and burying any ends
inside the tally, or you can have coloured threads moving throughout
your piece, barely showing up if you're using a lot of another colour,
and then whichever thread you pick to weave with becomes a solid block
of colour for the length of the tally.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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