Holly wrote:
> As I wrote before, I haven't knit finer than 8 stitches per inch. I do > quite a bit of that--socks and gloves that wear very well. Not much > like a ring shawl, Shetland or otherwise. I can make a guess, spin some > yarn, and find the right needles to get 12 stitches per inch quite > easily. But it wouldn't be the same weight as the lace yarn used for > ring shawls unless I'm an extraordinarily good guesser. > > Holly > just looking for accurate information on the thickness of traditional > Shetland ring shawl yarn I saw an exhibit of Shetland lace knitting in a museum in London back in 1972. Can't recall the name of the museum unfortunately. The shawls displayed were knit of wool about the thickness of machine embroidery thread as I recall (very dimly). There was a shawl with ordinary machine sewing thread draped over it to show that the yarn was finer than that. Another shawl that was displayed pulled halfway through a woman's size 6 wedding ring to prove that indeed it could be done so. Shirley To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
