On Mar 1, 2005, at 13:07, Jane Bawn wrote:
Personally I didn't use plastic film for a long time, I pricked
straight on to the card from my paper pattern and then just used the card,
after all if you are only going to use the pattern for a short period and
then never again it is pointless going to all that trouble.
I moved away from the "prick through the paper, then mark the cardboard" method when I moved away from Torchon and big spaces between the pins; there was too much possibility for error. And, marking with permanent ink pen, didn't allow much room for corrections :) While tracing with pen over pencil marks was not only a lot of work, but not entirely satisfactory, either, on several counts.
I started to cover the - photocopied - prickings (stuck to the cardbboard) with plastic film because the photocopier ink was not entirely permanent; it flaked, it smudged, it was not dependable.
In time, I started covering with plastic film *every* pricking, even if it's just a pre-project sample (I just don't do as thorough a job of it as I do for a "project"). The thickness of the 3 sandwich layers (card, paper and film) is about the same as the thickness of the "proper" lacemaking card (Honiton, the pre-printed patterns in some books). Which, BTW, is not entirely matte, either. But it leaves more room for corrections in *pricking*, because a slightly misplaced hole in *plasitc film* will close up (or almost), where one in card will not.
To each her own but, recently, I tried the "old method" for something very simple - just pinholes on the sides of a strip of graph paper, to test out a Milanese braid. I wanted to save on the film (I'm running low on my beloved "medium gray" and can't replace it; I *hate* the blue film for more reasons than price <g>). And, yes, it was workable, but I hated every minute of working on it. Finally stuck the graph paper strip onto a slightly thinner card and covered both with plastic... Much better :)
Yours, the most verbose of contributors (but also versatile - there's never a subject I leave alone <g>),
-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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