Hi All, I flick my bobbins when doing tallies/leaves, and find it doesn't take long to make one. After I learned that way (thanks, Josée!), I had other teachers demonstrate other methods but none were any where near as fast. I also work cloth stitch the way Nancy mentioned - it's much quicker.
Cheers, Cindy, in Ontario, Canada > For example, I studied bobbin lace at the Hotel de la Dentelle in Brioude, > and they have a trick for making tallies that allows their staff and > graduates to work impressively fast. It's hard to explain, but essentially > you never pick up and carry your bobbins palms down. Instead you rotate > your hands 180 degrees in a seamless flow and fling the bobbins back and > forth. Sorry if that isn't very clear, they must have videos of it > somewhere. > > - 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/
