Hello All, I have resubscribed to this list after a long absence and I have enjoyed the discussions very much. I have recently been able to get my lace supplies out of mothballs and begin to relearn and I have run into a discrepancy. I want to try a Torchon fan pattern in Louise Colgan's book Bobbin Lace Fans and the pattern includes a gimp. I mostly worked in Buck's Point way back when (and was a beginner at that!). I noticed that in both Buck's books that I have, both Pamela Nottingham and Geraldine Stott are quite clear about the gimp thread always going over the right and under the left of a pair of bobbins when traveling through the lace. However, in Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace by Bridget Cook, she states that the gimp should always go under the right and over the left to prevent the twist being undone. Now I am wondering if it matters at all, or if the over-right-under-left is just for point ground and it is done another way in Torchon. What say all of you?
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