On 20 May 2004, at 01:02, Weronika Patena wrote:
Torchon is normally designed on a square grid although with the use of the computer as a design tool the square grid is sometimes bent and stretched into all sorts of shapes. Have a look at my website for a few examples. However, in conventional torchon the square grid is what helps to make the regular geometric feaures which make torchon what it is, and without a grid of some sort it would be impossible to get an accurate pricking with evenly spaced pinholes.Is Torchon really always designed on a square grid? Or any grid? And why? If it was designed without a grid, would it be a free lace too?
Free lace is a rather vague term - usually taken to mean a lace which is designed around freely drawn shapes - Honiton, Milanese etc - cannot by the nature of the design be drawn with a grid, other than for areas of fillings. Pinholes are placed as and where the pattern requires them. On the other hand, Danish Freehand lace, which is worked without a pricking, just a striped pillow cover, has a lot in common with torchon and the designs are regular and geometric.
Brenda http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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