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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