Re: [lace] one-handed lacing
Just noteI seem to have more of a problem with bobbins staying in placeso I got out a helper that I used to use for bobbins rollingtwo flat, oblong erasers. They stay where put, as stopper, and easier than pins etc. So far, so good, but slow..I have to train my letfy to think as a righty. Now I think I know what dyslectic children face! BarbE - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: [lace] one-handed lacing
Hi everyone It is quite possible to do lace with one hand - try it! You have to move each bobbin on its own, at first, and tension carefully. Yes it is slow going, but if you practice, you can get quite good at it, even if your dominant hand is the one that has to recuperate. You might even learn something about technique. The slower pace puts you in a different space, and being able to lace, that's good for recovery, too ;) -- bye for now Bev in sunny, icy Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] one-handed lacing
Hi everyone Just to change the subject to a less wide Field than copyright...remember we were chatting about one-handed lacing - I tried it with my Flanders ground edging - did not last long with working with one hand. Torchon no problem, but Flanders ground - it goes much better with both hands in motion (not to say it can't be done with one hand, just that the technician is happier using both). I did learn something else about technique - I made a dandy straw bolster - the Bucks insertion needing 24 pairs, and theres' not much room for more on this bolster - is well underway. I'm using my brass pins, pricking as I go through two layers - a photocopy of the pattern (from 100 Patterns) glued to cover card - the pins go through the pattern, into the pillow, nicely, and they don't bend. I had covered the straw bolster with several firm wraps of old wool blanket. The nature of the bolster changes the way one works - it is a curved surface, with a front and back, not domed like the cookie pillow. The bobbins hang to the front when in use, and pushed to the back when not needed - most of the bobbins are at the back (I always wondered about that, in the pictures in Thomas Wright for instance - why the lacemakers had so many bobbins at the back of their pillows - perhaps this is why). I can see that if one had mastered the pattern, and would work quickly, one hand would favour putting in pins, while the other moved bobbins. I also learned that with evening light, if I didn't want to be in my own shadow, I *had* to pin with the hand away from the light, only. It is a short stretch to imagine that a lacemaker, accustomed to pinning with one hand to avoid shadow, got used to putting pins with that one hand. The insertion I'm doing has tallies scattered through it - tally-making, too, is different again on this sort of pillow. I haven't got a good method yet, for speed and neatness - but I think my hands will teach me what that should be. There's always something new to learn in lace ;) -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] one-handed lacing
Hi everyone I'm impressed with the description of the lacemaker working the bobbins with one hand and putting pins with the other - it is efficient for speed, eliminates a lot of the movements we use with two hands. The bobbin lacemaker is a technician. Areas of ground were made without placing pins - probably faster to do so with just the one hand? I'm going to try that (my Midlands bobbins have been idle while my attention has been on Tigne and Flanders...tsk!). The flatter pillow or broad bolster would be conducive to this method. To give one of my hands a rest, or if I *must* make lace and the other hand is holding the cordless phone g I, too, use one hand to move the bobbins. In this case the same hand also puts the pins, so there is a certain amount of stopping and starting. How would you make a tally? -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~wt912 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
