Update on the thread -
Interesting - the slips are not as I expected. I thought the entire parcel
would be one long length of thread, with all the slips joined to one another,
but - no. Each slip is fastened off, separate from the others, so you can just
extract one slip at a time from the
Brian sent this to me but it was clearly meant for the whole list
-- Forwarded Message --
From: "Brian Lemin"
Sent: 2/25/2022 8:05:39 PM
Subject: In praise of Wright! and a ps about another "worthy"
I have been reading with interest the discussion on "slip thread". My
ignorance knows
I'd love to see photos of this thread on our Flickr account! Let me
know if you need the login.
I wonder if it would be good to put the thread in a shower room / in a
container under a damp cloth to add humidity to it. I know that makes
a different when cotton threads on the pillow become
Does anyone know of translations to English of any of the following books"
Withof Duchesseby Trude v.d. Heijden-Biemans, Yvonne Scheele-Kerkhof, and
Puck Smelter-Hoekstra
La Dentelle Dduchesse #2 by Mick Fouriscot and Leona Parfait-Laitem
La Dentelle Duchesse Initiationâ by Mick
Thank you so much, Jean, Sue (and Brenda & Clay through the archives) -
My little 6” parcel didn’t seem to have any red threads, or any indication
of having been tied at all, but the picture of your parcel that you so kindly
sent, Jean, looked a lot like my parcel in every other respect,
I looked in the archives for "slip" and came up with these messages
from Brenda Paternoster:
[lace] Slip threads
Brenda Paternoster Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:18:22 -0800
Dear Spiders
I have recently acquired some old slip threads - thank you Lynne - and
my quandry is whether or not I should break
Hi Adele,
I think it’s probably very fine cotton. In the Romance of the Lace Pillow by
Thomas Wright (1971 reprint from Paul Minet) on p.123 it says
“Many workers use ordinary Lace Thread (which is, of course, cotton),
sometimes called Gassed Thread, from the fact that it is drawn at a slow but
Hi, Everybody:
I just got a skein of old linen thread that’s not like anything I’ve ever
seen before, here in Canada, but I think maybe some of the Europeans on this
list might be familiar with what I have and be able to help me.
It’s a single skein, not marked or labelled, and it is very fine -
