Thank you, Janette - then there could be a point at which if the button is
dropped, the spokes could unwind before they were backstitched together?
The spokes are not sewn into the buttonhole stitches, but just wrapped
around the whole ring? In the book the stitches do unwind when a button is
dropped.
Also - in Chevalier's book "Girl with a Pearl Earring" there is a mention of
the girls working on their lace in front of their home. I've always
wondered if it was bobbin lace or needle lace - seems it would be easier for
young girls to manage needle lace outdoors, but I believe bobbin lace would
have been more common in the Netherlands at that time. Any thoughts?
Regina Haring
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From: "Janette Manvell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:15 AM
Subject: [lace] Re: lace-digest V2007 #107 re Dorset Buttons
Regina Said
Subject: [lace] Buttony redux
In one place the author talks about "wrapping the thread" around the ring
while in another she mentions that blanket stitch is used. It seems to
me it
would have to be blanket stitch. Anne Kellaway says "Then I wrap the
thread
across the ring to make spokes for the wheel, and then backstitch round
and
round each spoke, so the thread fills in the space. At the end I gather
it in
the center with a stitch, and there be your button".
The Reference to wrapping and blanket stitch is correct.
In Dorset Button making both blanket stitch and wrapping are used - first
the ring is buttonholed all round and then the spokes are wrapped around
the ring before they are backstitched or woven to form the centre.
JanM in Brisbane
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