[lace] Armenian Lace
Seasons Greetings to everyone, and I hope the Festive Season and in to 2019 is a good one for you. (How can it be almost 2019 already? I know we had a couple of weeks of October, - but whatever happened to November? Did we get one this year? I think I missed it!!! ð ) I get the Digest form of this list, so am a bit late with answering! Elena asked about Armenian Lace. Elena Dickson has written a couple of books on âEastern Mediterranean Knotted Laceâ â and they are excellent â I learned from them! They are in English, with very clear diagrams. I can recommend the books â one is well out of print, I think, but she produced another one with much the same beginners instructions in it, but with some different patterns to make! That should be still available â âMediterranean Knotted Lace,â by Elena Dickson (Milner Craft Series) Published 2005 â so it should still be available . Mine has a soft cover. If you are looking for her first book (hard cover) it is called âKnotted Lce in the Eastern Mediterranian Traditionâ published in 1992 â also by the Milner Craft publishers. You might be lucky and can find a 2nd hand copy â like I have! Her 3rd book is more advances â Bebilla flowers. It is a nice lace to make â once you get the basic idea, can make the knot, and get it Tight! (My problem, - so Elena told me when I managed to get a class with her â I was not tightening my knots enough!) Regards from Liz. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Re: Expanding cloth stitch with weaving techniques
Veronika, Excellent analysis, pictures, and discussion! (What are you using for your diagrams? Inkscape?) At the end of the discussion on your website, you commented about whether the pattern will show up in bobbin lace, and it occurred to me that perhaps adding some extra twists and crosses judiciously in the body of the area, not just at the edges, might product a well-defined pattern (although based on but not really a proper twill, of course). This may be irrelevant since the question was initially about doing classic weaving in the cloth-stitch areas of bobbin lace, but I thought I'd offer it as a tangent, since it might produce some interesting patterns when combined with your method of producing a twill. All, The other thing that occurs to me, as another tangent, is that a different form of weaving would lend itself to bobbin lace: tablet weaving (in the US often called card weaving) produces a warp-faced fabric with pairs of threads twisted around each other above and below the weft. I think the bobbin lace version would be easy to produce since twisting the 'warp' threads is easy, but unless lots of 'warp' threads were added at the start of the solid area, one would get a much more open weave with lots of 'weft' showing. Just some random thoughts. Nancy On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:35 PM vmi wrote: > > ...2/2 twill has a float of only two threads which I think might hold > together better. ... > > Veronika Irvine > > > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Re: Expanding cloth stitch with weaving techniques
Hello Joseph, You have asked an interesting question. In 3/1 twill there is a float over three threads which may be a bit long for bobbin lace. However, 2/2 twill has a float of only two threads which I think might hold together better. I decided to try and figure out how I would make 2/2 twill using pairs of bobbins and just slightly modifying the plain cloth technique. The explanation required some pictures so I decided to post it on my blog. I am still working on the description and, in particular, I now need to go and make some samples. However, if you want to see an early draft of my idea, here it is: https://tesselace.com/2018/12/20/2-2-twill-with-bobbins/ Thank you for the nice puzzle. Kind regards, Veronika Irvine - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
