About 20 years ago I only had lace-making books and didn't know other
lacemakers, nor lacemaking-suppliers. So I didn't even know how to get white
thread thin enough for the patterns form Elsie Luxtons books.
So I experimented with unraveling various types of cloth.
My word... :) And here was I, all these years, too embarassed to admit that I used to unply machine-sewing silk (3 plies), then dampen each ply to straighten it out before using it for miniature needlepoint (same reason; I knew no suppliers of really fine thread in colour)... I guess, if one's obsessive, one will always find a way out of every difficulty :)
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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