Hi Linda and everyone The word you want for thread ends on the loom is 'thrums.' Some weavers find uses for their thrums, in rug-making, or as tied into bundles to make dusters (who dusts?!). I once tried to use some in a lace project, but the integrity of the particular yarn was not good for bobbin lace.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Linda Walton <[email protected]>wrote: > > Ort > Although the word is thought to derive from Anglo-Saxon, and there is a > clear explanation from about 1325 that 'ort' means leftover cattle fodder, > the first reference to ort as fibre comes in 2000, "in 'Piecework' May-June > 5/1 'Thread ends are sometimes called orts, a term that originally > referred to food scraps left over after a meal' ". (I'm sure I have heard > the term used to refer to the yarn left on the loom when the weaving has > been cut off, but there is no mention of that, and it may be just as > recent.) > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
