Dear Tamara
Threads from Pipers can be ordered direct from the website or from a
particular dealer in Geelong. They only take about 5 days from the UK though.
When was the last time you'd ordered? g I ordered a batch on
Sunday/Monday and was told that the delivery date *within UK* is 21 days;
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:16:54 -0500, Sherri wrote:
I have been lurking on this list for awhile now - seeing all the posts
about a quiet list - maybe you won't mind my asking a few questions. I
am a wannabe lacemaker, not even a beginner - I have bobbins, some
thread and pins, even a few
I have been lurking on this list for awhile now - seeing all the posts
about a quiet list - maybe you won't mind my asking a few questions. I
am a wannabe lacemaker, not even a beginner - I have bobbins, some
thread and pins, even a few prickings - I have balked at the purchase of
a pillow and
Dear Sherri,
Welcome! And let me, on behalf of the Arachne list, assure you that we don't
mind questions of any sort!! Asking questions is how you learn.
Pillows: there are all sorts of pillows around the world, and, depending on
where you live, I'm sure that someone will be able to recommend
Dear Jen,
Here goes. Why isn't thread manufactured today that is as fine as those
available in the early lace-making days. I'd
have thought that with the technology available these days (fibre optics,
micro and nanotechnology etc etc) that small
wouldn't be a problem. If they could do it in the
On Nov 18, 2004, at 5:09, David Collyer wrote:
The threads certainly are available today.
Silk and cotton are, but not linen, which is the most superiour thread
for lacemaking, when looked at from many angles. It's almost as strong
as silk (micron for micron), but not as slippery (ie easier to
Hi Spiders,
Well, I usually have very little to add to the list because I am still fairly
new to lace, and don't have a lot of time
to make lace (yet). As lace-wise I know next-to-nothing and am capable of not
much more, I tend to just sit back and
read all the amazing expertise you all have.
My question Jen, is where can we buy 100 micron wire for Lenka's lace ideas.
Lynn Scott, Wollongong, Australia
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Having spent a great deal of time trying to find fine linen thread, I'll
pass on the reasons I was given for it no longer being available.
To get fine thread, flax has to be grown very close together, so that it
competes for light and nutrients, and becomes long and thin rather than a
I had also heard that some of the varieties (for want of a more
accurate phrase) of truly fine linen plants went extinct around the time
of/during WWI.
--sue, another lurking list member who just really doesn't ever have
much to contribute
Edith Holmes wrote:
Having spent a great deal of
Hello Jen and all
there is no such thing as a dumb question! If you
don't ask, how are you going to learn!
Cannot help with the wire, and not much on the thread
one, but: at an OIDFA meeting in Sweden, we had, let's
call it a lively discussion, with a representative of
a linen thread
Hello Jennifer,
Flax is a very difficult plant and to become thread is a very long
working process so it is very expensive. And the consumption of such
fine linnen thread is so few that nobody is interested to do this heavy
work and it would cost much more than it actually do. And in former
Jen,
I do wire bobbin lace and have gotten the gauges (US) from my local surplus
store or from a source online in NJ. Yes, you can use the wire from the shop,
but I make sure it is coated wire with an enamel coating. Usually the enamel
is colored, hence, red wire, green wire, copper wire,
the box'.
Lorri -who does wire lace also
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