Dear David, The passives that are between your coarse thread and the footside edge are treated as a bundle with the coarse thread in chantilly. You go through the coarse thread and passives together as if they were a gimp thread. You don't do chantilly like bucks. I would like to see your work when you are done. You can refer to page 6 in Lia Baumeister-Jonker's book on Chantilly - excellent reference work.
Sylvia Andrews ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Collyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: [lace] A simple question > Dear Friends, > Here's a question I just thought up today after quite a few years of lace > making now. > > In working this very complex Chantilly cloth, I find a problem which also > often arises in Bucks Point. The number of passives between the work and > the picots on the edge (can never remember which is headside and which is > footside :) can vary from 2 pairs to 14 pairs. I find that when I'm using > the very fine 2/20 silk and I have to tension up the 14 or so pairs, that's > when I'm most likely to break threads. > > As I do NOT want to subject my 2 cats to any more obscene language than is > absolutely necessary, I was wondering whether there might be a few little > clues lurking away out there in Arachne Land, to avoid these breakages. > I've wondered whether it would make any difference if I tensioned from the > outside or the inside; whether I tension each bobbin individually or in > pairs; should I tension each pair as I pass through, rather than wait till > I've gone through all 14 pairs etc. etc. > > I only broke 3 threads today - but each one seemed so un-necessary - and I > think Mother was rolling over in her grave with what I uttered. At least > Roxy's getting a bit too old to hear it all. Had to have a stiff vodka. > Love > David in Ballarat > > - > 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]
