Like th eothers I think that this is more torchon than Cluny and that
it's more likely to be linen than cotton.
If "just over 3 stitches per inch" means that there are just over 3
pinholes per inch - along the footside then it's a spacing of just less
than 1/3 inch or 8mm between the pins. The optimum thread size for
that grid is, as Tamara says 15 wraps/cm.
However, as we don't know how old the lace is it would be wrong to
suggest that it's made from something currently available; there was a
lot of Knox's linen used in the past. Three twists in the working
doesn't make the thread 3 ply. Mark, is it 2 ply or 3 ply?
Brenda
On 24 Feb 2009, at 05:35, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
I am guessing at size 40-50?
It is just over 3 whole stitches per inch on the footside.
According to various charts I have -- some with photos of samples -- a
similar density is achieved by linen 35/2 in lace which has 4 footside
stitches per inch. So, if this one has only 3, then the tread is
coarser than that. Unfortunately, none of the charts I have even
mentions a 3-stitches-per-inch footside :)
I'm not sure my math skills are up to getting it right from Brenda's
book, but I'll try.
According to her book, the optimum (and the thread in your piece is
certainly well chosen) is 12wraps between footside stitches for
Torchon (I agree with Alice, that the piece is more Torchon than
Cluny). So, with 3 stitches per inch, it's 36 wraps per inch, or 36
wraps per 25mm. Or 14.4 wraps per 10mm/1cm, which is how she counts
her wraps. In the 14 and 15wpcm columns, she has only one well known
brand of linen and that's Bockens 25/3. The linen used in your piece
is a 2-ply, not 3, I think. So, at the moment, there seems to be no
2-ply linen available that is that coarse :)
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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