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
