Re: [lace] Suitable thread for filet lace?

[Jeri Ames]

This is a perfect example of how important the Subject of a memo is.  All
this running around looking for information about a long-ago manufacturer of
thread, when including Filet Lace on the Subject line would have yielded a
rapid response.  If someone has questions and is not making bobbin or needle
laces, it is important to tell us that.
 
She may not be an Arachne member, so I am forwarding a blind carbon copy of
this correspondence to the President of the New England Lace Group, Rita
Bartholomew.  She teaches Filet Lace, and self-published the 205-page book
Lost Art of Netting - How-to Book for Beginning Netter, Vol. 1, in 2014.  I
am confident she can steer Joseph in the right direction for buying a thread
that would be a suitable substitution in 2017
 
Rita:  The Arachne correspondent, Joseph Young, uses e-mail address
graceadlerdesi...@outlook.com.  He has been reading old Filet Lace books that
call for thread manufactured by Walter Evans and Company.  Their Mecklenburg
thread No. 20 probably has a modern equivalent?  
 
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace and Embroidery Resource Center 

In a message dated 12/16/2017 9:45:20 AM Eastern Standard Time,
suebabbs...@gmail.com writes:

 I'm trying changing the subject line on this one, in case it triggers an
answer that will help Joseph. I think that I recall some people on this
list who make filet lace. Can anyone advise Joseph on what a suitable
thread would be for him to use to make filet lace?
Sue

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Young
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 4:48 AM
To: Brenda Paternoster ; Leonard Bazar
Cc: Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] Walter Evans and Co.'s Mecklenburg thread No. 20

The thread is used in a few old Filet Lacis books. I want to use it to
make netting and then embroider on it to make "filet lace". I just
bought a shuttle and gauge set, so now I need to find out what thread I
need to use.  Joseph

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Fw: [lace] Suitable thread for filet lace?

[Sue Babbs]

Dianne's reply came to me privately, so I'm forwarding it to Arachne and 
Joseph:


-Original Message- 
From: Dianne Nicholson

Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:13 AM
To: Sue Babbs
Subject: Re: [lace] Suitable thread for filet lace?

When I was taught to make the ground or netting, back in the late '60s we 
used dmc cordonnet 100 and 150. The darning was  done with a flat soft 
thread.


We made both round and square mats at the time.

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[lace] Suitable thread for filet lace?

[Sue Babbs]

I'm trying changing the subject line on this one, in case it triggers an 
answer that will help Joseph.   I think that I recall some people on this 
list who make filet lace.  Can anyone advise Joseph on what a suitable 
thread would be for him to use to make filet lace?



Sue

suebabbs...@gmail.com


-Original Message- 
From: Joseph Young

Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 4:48 AM
To: Brenda Paternoster ; Leonard Bazar
Cc: Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace] Walter Evans and Co.'s Mecklenburg thread No. 20

The thread is used in a few old Filet Lacis books. I want to use it to
make netting and then embroider on it to make "filet lace". I just
bought a shuttle and gauge set, so now I need to find out what thread I
need to use.


Joseph

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