On Mar 23, 2005, at 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie) wrote:
The pins are missing! There are no pins in the ground! How do I
tension
without pins to pull against?
Tamara wrote:
The pins are missing in the ground of both Mechlin and Valenciennes
(and I've heard of some Bucks
I've never tried Mechlin, but Skansk is another lace with pins only at the
edges. What I did through the ground was work to an edge and use that pin to
maintain the worker's position while carefully tensioning each ground stitch
along its path. Even in Bucks, they traditionally didn't put
Julie,
I took Ulrike Voelker's (nee Loehr) (NOTE: The new name has NO UMLAUT,
YAY!) class in Ithaca and love Mechlin. I haven't done tons of it, but I
think I got the ground pretty well under my belt.
As usual, Tamara's Patented Thinking Woman's Lace Methods are right on
track. On the
In a message dated 3/24/2005 3:45:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
writes:
I was in once that although Mechlin was
supposed to have died out early in the 1800's, she found lace pieces in
England that were worked in Mechlin ground up til almost 1900. It was a
small lace
Hi Spiders
My background is Torchon and Bucks Point and now I am trying to do the
first exercise in the Mechlin book Rita Thienpondt's Syllabus Mechelse Kant
I.
Thank you for answering my questions about terminology last week; it was very
helpful and motivating.
I am not having any
On Mar 23, 2005, at 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie) wrote:
The pins are missing! There are no pins in the ground! How do I
tension
without pins to pull against?
The pins are missing in the ground of both Mechlin and Valenciennes
(and I've heard of some Bucks workers who don't use them,
