---- Lorelei Halley <lhal...@bytemeusa.com> wrote: One thing to remember is that when weaving a cloth stitch area, whichever bobbins serve as the weavers will dominate the color appearance. So if you have one or 2 passive pairs that are green, in a flower, they may not matter much. So long as your weaver and 2 edge pairs are petal colors (because these 3 take turns as weavers) it won't matter so much what color the others are. (There is a piece at the Art Institute of Chicago which has plaid flowers because of this fact.)-----
It's not necessarily true that the weaver dominates the passives. It depends on tensioning. Whichever threads get pulled more tightly will be straighter, causing the threads going the other direction to be wavy (go up and down to get around the straight-line ones. The wavy threads are more visible while the straight-line threads are pushed down below the wavy ones. If you pull tightly on your passives and just ease the worker around the pin, the passive colors will be less noticeable. On the other hand, if you tug firmly on the worker/weaver at the pin while very gently straightening the passives, the passives will go up and down while the worker goes arrow-straight. The passive color will then be dominant over the worker color. Now, with Honiton-size threads you're not really tugging anything all that hard, but you can still exert some control over which threads (worker/weavers or passives) dominate. Another way to control whether passive color or worker color dominates is to vary the thickness--a slightly thicker worker will dominate a slightly thinner passive, and vice versa. Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
