Re: [lace] RE: Footside on left or right?

[Sue Babbs]

Sorry everyone - operator malfunction!  The "send" button on my Kindle is 
where the "delete" button is on my laptop screen!


Maybe it was simply that the person who brought the technique to England 
could remember the technique but put the pricking on the pillow upside down, 
thus changing the footside to the other side, and then everyone they taught 
thought it was the way to do it.


Or maybe like me they found picots are quicker to make on the left side than 
the right.  It is easier to twist with my left hand, so if you're doing a 
point ground picot with 7 twists it is much quicker if the footside (without 
picots) is on the left and the picots are all on the right.



Sue

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Re: [lace] RE: Footside on left or right?

[Susan E Babbs]

Or simply that the person who brought the technique to England put the pricking 
and put it on 

On December 12, 2017, at 3:25 AM, J-D Hammett  wrote:

Hi fellow Arachnids,

Janis has put forward an interesting and very plausible theory. Are there any
other ideas out there?

Happy lace making.

Joepie, East Sussex on a bright but very cold day.


From: Janis Savage
Sent: 12 December 2017 07:54
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Footside on left or right?

The question of why the footside of yardage lace is either on the right
(mainly English laces) or on the left (mainly European continent laces) has
come up regularly over the years and no-one seems to have a definitive answer
other than the Brits do everything the other way around from their
continental
cousins.

I have a personal theory, so I take full blame if I am proved wrong. When I
first learned to make bobbin lace in England in the late 1970's, photocopy
machines were still a rarity so we were taught to trace the pricking from a
<...
...>
So my theory is that when the Mechlin and Lille lacemakers fled to England ,
they either took rubbings of their prickings or allowed rubbings to be taken
from their prickings in their new country and the quickest and easiest way to
make up these designs was to change the side of the footside.

I hope that this makes sense and if anyone has problems with my theory I am
willing to listen.

Lace greetings from

Janis in South Africa

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[lace] RE: Footside on left or right?

[J-D Hammett]

Hi fellow Arachnids,

Janis has put forward an interesting and very plausible theory. Are there any
other ideas out there?

Happy lace making.

Joepie, East Sussex on a bright but very cold day.


From: Janis Savage
Sent: 12 December 2017 07:54
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: [lace] Footside on left or right?

The question of why the footside of yardage lace is either on the right
(mainly English laces) or on the left (mainly European continent laces) has
come up regularly over the years and no-one seems to have a definitive answer
other than the Brits do everything the other way around from their
continental
cousins.

I have a personal theory, so I take full blame if I am proved wrong. When I
first learned to make bobbin lace in England in the late 1970's, photocopy
machines were still a rarity so we were taught to trace the pricking from a
<...
...>
So my theory is that when the Mechlin and Lille lacemakers fled to England ,
they either took rubbings of their prickings or allowed rubbings to be taken
from their prickings in their new country and the quickest and easiest way to
make up these designs was to change the side of the footside.

I hope that this makes sense and if anyone has problems with my theory I am
willing to listen.

Lace greetings from

Janis in South Africa

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