Yes. For the most part, the teacher recommended taking the end of
the first thread under whatever is already wrapped around the core
and out the bottom, where you've already got thread tails. Clip it
to the length of the existing tails. Then take the new thread and
snake it up from the bottom underneath the already-wrapped bits to
continue at the same spot, leaving a tail of that thread hanging out
at the bottom as well. It seemed to work fine with the designs we
were doing, though it got a tiny bit bulky on one of them--probably
practice will improve things!
Melanie
On Aug 13, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Marie Stewart wrote:
ooh, question for you.
Did they happen to address how to splice in a thread if your original
length of thread was too short? I've always made my buttons with
exceedingly long lengths of thread for fear of not being able to
figure out how to add more thread.
Thanks,
and good to have you "home" safe.
Mari / Bridgette.
On 8/13/07, Melanie Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I took a wonderful class on how to make 16th-century thread-wrapped
buttons. I've been wanting to learn how to make these for a long
time and even have a book with some instructions, but I never sat
down and did it. Now I know the basics and can start on a set of
buttons for the doublet I'm embroidering. Even better, making
thread-
wrapped buttons is a small and very portable project.
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