Clay and Elizabeth, I have a few Floral Torchon patterns by Geraldine Stott. None of them require the addition of extra pairs during working...whereas Torchon traditionally is made up of geometric shapes, these are basically flowers drawn on the Torchon grid. To my eye, used to working Bucks, the flowers look a bit "square", rather than the flowing designs you can get in Bucks. I presume that the "square" look is due to the 45 degree grid.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) --- Clay Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Elizabeth - and spiders! > > I'm still a relative newbie myself, but when I hear the > term "floral" applied to a lace (Bucks or Torchon, for > example...), I think of designs in which you need to add > threads in some areas and throw them out in others. In > strictly geometric torchon, the threads work around pins and > proceed through from one section to the other in an orderly > fashion with a consistent number of bobbins. But in > "floral" torchon, the threads which move into a motif may > not be sufficient to fill that section, and so more threads > have to be added... at the completion of the motif, the > threads may need to be thrown out again. My guess is that > the term "floral" derived from the presence, in many of > these designs, of floral motifs... however, I think that is > actual fact, the motifs do not always represent flowers. > > I've stuck my neck out here, and will eagerly wait to see if > I'm right, or if, as that awful show said, I'm the "weakest > link"! (A definite possibility with regards to my grasp of > lacemaking technical terms!!) > > Clay > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth MacPherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:59 AM > Subject: [lace] Floral Torchon > > > > Dear Spiders, > > What is Floral Torchon? I have not heard this term before. > Are there books on this type of lace? Thanks for any help. > > Elizabeth MacPherson > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > > > > - > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > containing the line: > > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
