Re: [lace] heirloom sewing and lace insertion

[RicTorr8]

I must have missed the original post about insertion lace, but my
understanding is that insertion lace is a lace which has a footside on each
side, and is intended to be attached to fabric on either side.  This is
also known as "entre-deux".  
I must have missed the original post too, but insertion lace is actually a 
broader category than just entre-deux, which is a very narrow band with sort of 
a ladder type threads connecting the two sides. 
Insertion lace similarly has straight edges on both sides, sewn between two 
pieces of fabric, and joining them together, but the term usually is applied to 
bands of lace proper, rather than the simpler narrow entre-deux bands.
Oftentimes, in fact, a row entredeux is used between the edges of the 
insertion lace and the fabric, to join them together, in heirloom sewing...

There are pictures at:
http://www.cynthiahoweminiatures.com/Sewing.htm

Best to all,
Ricci
Utah

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[lace] redrafting a pricking

[Janice Blair]

Jacqui wrote:
   
  
   
  Not wanting to totally redraft a large bucks pricking due to a wobbly ground, 
I scanned it into my Paintshop Pro instead of my Lace 2000, and I used the 
straight line tool to draw thin diagonal lines from the footside to the fancy 
head in both directions, putting my pins in where the lines intersected.  My 
pricking looked a bit odd but it worked well enough to get fairly straight 
lines of ground.  Scanning a pricking into Lace 2000 gives you a background on 
which to base your truing up but the hard work is up to you, and I am always 
the one for the easy path so I can get on with working the lace.  I have tried 
to work without pins in the past but am never confident that I might not miss a 
row.  I like the idea of taking the pins out fairly quickly to achieve an 
straighter ground.  Thanks for the tip.
  Janice




Janice Blair
Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org/

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Re: [lace] Needle and bobbin

[Clay Blackwell]

Helen, That's an INSPIRED response!!  I do remember my DD making those
bracelets all those years ago, and so even the "thirty-something" observers
can potentially relate to that explanation.  I'll remember that one!!

Clay

Clay Blackwell
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RE: [lace] heirloom sewing and lace insertion

[Clay Blackwell]

I must have missed the original post about insertion lace, but my
understanding is that insertion lace is a lace which has a footside on each
side, and is intended to be attached to fabric on either side.  This is
also known as "entre-deux".  

Hope this helps.

Clay 

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Re: [lace] redrafting pricking

[Sue Babbs]

Yes, Bev is right. You can scan in the pattern to Lace 200, but you still 
have to manually re-true it, the computer won't match the dots to the grid 
for you

Sue

And Bev adds - yes, in Easy Lace you can do that too - but Easy Lace,
and, as far as I know, Lace 2000 doesn't take the scan and retrue the
dots, the operator has to do that :))


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[lace] Finding the contents of the lace CDs

[Tess Parrish]

If you want to find out the contents of the CDs, they are all listed on
. Go to the bottom of the page 
and click on any of the Historic Lace Archive Volumes.


Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED],com)

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[lace] redrafting pricking

[Laceandbits]

The most important line to correct is the footside (and maybe the catch pin 
row); draw a straight line along and prick your hole next to the dots but on 
the line.  If you do the same to the head side curves, it might be all you need 
to do.

As someone else said, the Bucks ground is supported by the leading thread in 
each row and direction (if you work it correctly) so uneven ground pin holes 
are not crucial.  If you are unhappy about the thought of not using them at 
all, use them but take them out a lot earlier than you normally would; perhaps 
only two or three rows on.  (But I do mean just the ground pins, not the catch 
pins or footside pins or any catch pins alongside the pattern itself.)  This 
will then allow the supporting thread to do it's work unimpeded by uneven pin 
spacing.

Jacquie

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Fwd: [lace] redrafting pricking

[bevw]

This was meant for Jenny and the list - thanks for writing, Daphne :)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Daphne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 20, 2006 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [lace] redrafting pricking


Dear Jenny
  I have Lace 2000, and you can scan in your pattern
and retrace the pattern.
Best wishes
Daphne

And Bev adds - yes, in Easy Lace you can do that too - but Easy Lace,
and, as far as I know, Lace 2000 doesn't take the scan and retrue the
dots, the operator has to do that :))
Then, you are redrafting the pattern anyway so probably pen and paper
will be just as straightforward if you have only the one pricking.
(good luck with the *bête* Jenny)
--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com

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Re: [lace] redrafting pricking

[bevw]

Hi Jenny and everyone

You might be ok with the pricking as it is - I have found the computer
drafts are so perfect as to lack character so you might just want to
work with it as it is. I'm thinking it is the ground areas that are
looking wobbly? If it's the headside, too, then it would pay to
redraft - but not sure if you want to invest in software and its
learning curve just for the one project.
If it is just the ground dots that look problematic, have a go at 'no
pins' in that space. Take the catchpin at the footside as your start
point, eyeball the destination point at the headside and work
diagonally to it. Your one weaver pair will start at the catchpin and
end at the next available headside pin. IIRC it is Pam Nottingham who
says to use that as a test that you've made all the ground stitches
correctly. Tug on that weaver pair and there should be a line of
tension back to the catchpin. From another point of view if the
pricking in the magazine is distorted from the printing process, then
you'll have to redraft. Or - getting back to if it's ground that looks
'off' - draw light lines diagonally over the pindots, and follow the
lines rather than the precise dots.
This isn't answering your question. I can say that my choice of lace
design software, Easy Lace, doesn't do the truing for you ;)

On 2/20/06, Jenny Barron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Are there any computer programmes - lace design or some sort of graphic 
> package - that will allow me to scan the pricking and true up the dots?

--
bye for now
Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. floral bobbins
www.woodhavenbobbins.com

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[lace] redrafting pricking

[Jenny Barron]

I am having another go at a bucks (my bete noir) garter. (Torchon is my 
favourite lace - I think because of its orderliness) So I've found a pretty 
garter in an old magazine and am at the stage of photocopying the pattern to 
prick out. The thing is the pricking looks out of sync to me. Are there any 
computer programmes - lace design or some sort of graphic package - that will 
allow me to scan the pricking and true up the dots?I'm not being fanatical 
about this - if I have to redraft it with pen and paper I'll live with it. 
I'd be grateful for any advice
   
  jenny barron
  Sunny Scotland

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[lace] the new website's registration requirement

[Jean Nathan]

It's not the registration I object to - it's the fact that the registration 
isn't secure. There's no padlock symbol on the bottom bar of the 
registration page and it doesn't say it's secure, just that the information 
won't be used if you don't want it to be..


That's why I registered with incomplete information. I already get enough 
spam, junk mail and cold phone calls without giving someone an opportunity 
to intercept this information through registering on an insecure web page.


There was one day when each time I tried to log on to ebay the padlock 
symbol was missing, even when I tried their "secure login", so I didn't log 
on at all that day. I waited till the following day when it was back.


Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 


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