In a message dated 24/02/2010 08:40:39 GMT Standard Time, francis.busscha...@telenet.be writes:
> so the threads will never ever shred on the surface the leather is > highpolllished > Hi Francis, Leather or plastic is nice to use with continental bobbins, where you want them to slide, but with spangled bobbins I find that I need the slight amount of friction between the cloth and bobbin to be able to 'get hold' of them. But so long as the cloth is thin, and the bobbins aren't overwound, the thread shouldn't touch the cloth very much anyway. Even with leather or plastic there is still the same risk of the leash rubbing on the edge of the cloth. I haven't found that the threads break because of the cloths. They snap, fairly cleanly, if they are handled too roughly or if they are too dry and brittle, or they fall apart with long whiskers if they untwist. Neither of these are really due to the cloths. I suspect that having your pillow at an angle contributes a lot; as someone else pointed out, if the pillow is angled the bobbins will roll to the lowest point and one side will twist more and the other side will untwist. But again, this affects unspangled bobbins more than spangled which slide rather than roll. Malvary worked on a pillow that was Mum's, finishing off a piece of her lace. Two bobbins out of all of them kept untwisting. There were other bobbins of the same design on the pillow - no problem with them. One was one of the two fan workers - no problems with its partner. The other was working ground, pattern, footside - again, no problems with any other bobbins. We observed and analysed and puzzled. Never did solve the mystery, unless, possibly, had been wound those two bobbins with a different thread somehow. But if they were, it wasn't observable even with strong magnification. Jacquie in Lincolnshire - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
