Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature
Hello Julie Daliam cotton is not in Edition 3, or Addendum 3 as I've never seen it! If anyone has some.. Looking at the scale of the pricking, and the picture of the lace, I'd guess that it's some sort of pearl cotton. Also if you measure the average pinhole distance (it comes to 4.5mm) and then look at http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/threadsize/threadsize.html you'll see that 10 wraps/pinhole space for that scale needs a thread measured at 22 wraps/cm - give or take a couple of wraps. DMC and Anchor Perle 12 are both 21 w/cm so substitute either of those. That threadsize chart is in Ed 3 instead of the sample prickings. BTW, you do all know that you should look at Addendum 3 from time to time as it gets updates as and when anything different turns up. I bought some more Bart Francis threads yesterday at Tonbridge and Pat gave me a few more Valdani samples; they have just been added. Brenda On 23 Oct 2005, at 23:05, Julie Ourom wrote: Thread help The October pattern in the Lace Guild calendar for a tape lace pumpkin caught my fancy. It's made by a Spanish lacemaker, Maria Jose Jovez and calls for Daliam cotton thread 50 #12. Has anyone ever heard of this thread? I want to use some crochet cotton from my stash and it would help to know approx. what weight it is so I know how to adjust the pricking. So far I haven't been able to track it down. I have only the second edition of Brenda's thread book, and I don't see it there. I'd appreciate it if someone could check to see if it's in the 3rd edition (I need to get a copy) or possibly someone knows of this thread or has used it. Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature
Hello all spiders, I have contacted Maria Jose Jover, a fellow lacemaker designer of the tape lace pattern on the Lace Guild Calendar. Dalia is a cotton thread used here in Spain for crocheting, I do not remember now the manufacturer. I have been told by Maria Jose that if you have any trouble finding the thread Dalia nº 12, it can be changed by: Anchor Fabra Coats (crochet thread), nº12, ball of 5 gr. Hope this helps. Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace II now available Julie Ourom wrote: Thread help The October pattern in the Lace Guild calendar for a tape lace pumpkin caught my fancy. It's made by a Spanish lacemaker, Maria Jose Jovez and calls for Daliam cotton thread 50 #12. Has anyone ever heard of this thread? I want to use some crochet cotton from my stash and it would help to know approx. what weight it is so I know how to adjust the pricking. So far I haven't been able to track it down. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature
Hello Caroline I don't think Coats-Anchor make a No 12 crochet cotton but they do make Pearl cotton no 12, which is what I'd already suggested as a substitute for the pricking in the Lace Guild calendar. Brenda On 24 Oct 2005, at 16:40, Carolina de la Guardia wrote: Hello all spiders, I have contacted Maria Jose Jover, a fellow lacemaker designer of the tape lace pattern on the Lace Guild Calendar. Dalia is a cotton thread used here in Spain for crocheting, I do not remember now the manufacturer. I have been told by Maria Jose that if you have any trouble finding the thread Dalia nº 12, it can be changed by: Anchor Fabra Coats (crochet thread), nº12, ball of 5 gr. Hope this helps. Carolina. Barcelona. Spain. -- Carolina de la Guardia http://www.geocities.com/carolgallego Witch Stitch Lace II now available Julie Ourom wrote: Thread help The October pattern in the Lace Guild calendar for a tape lace pumpkin caught my fancy. It's made by a Spanish lacemaker, Maria Jose Jovez and calls for Daliam cotton thread 50 #12. Has anyone ever heard of this thread? I want to use some crochet cotton from my stash and it would help to know approx. what weight it is so I know how to adjust the pricking. So far I haven't been able to track it down. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] thread help: daliam cotton thread, lace in literature
Well, I joined the list within the first month or two of its formation so I could probably be considered a dowager, not that I've ever thought of using that term. Thread help The October pattern in the Lace Guild calendar for a tape lace pumpkin caught my fancy. It's made by a Spanish lacemaker, Maria Jose Jovez and calls for Daliam cotton thread 50 #12. Has anyone ever heard of this thread? I want to use some crochet cotton from my stash and it would help to know approx. what weight it is so I know how to adjust the pricking. So far I haven't been able to track it down. I have only the second edition of Brenda's thread book, and I don't see it there. I'd appreciate it if someone could check to see if it's in the 3rd edition (I need to get a copy) or possibly someone knows of this thread or has used it. Lace in Literature from The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay, an out-of-print novel (likely in your library), zany and fun. ...I was glad to drive to Bethlehem in the afternoon with my mother, who knew nothing except about the shops where they made jewellery and mother-of-pearl crosses and olive wood Bibles and velvet jackets embroidered with gold. Whenever my mother was in Bethlehem she got some of these jackets or tunics, and gave them to her friends and relations. She had a notion that all the New Testament women had shopped there, and that on the Sabbath they had all put on these velvet coats, and walked out in them, and she pictured all the Marys... and all the other women, walking out in these black velvet coats embroidered with gold thread, and ovef they heads they wore shawls of handmade lace. Probably knit or crochet lace...how we all wish that writers would give us more of the important details. JulieO in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada where it's cold and frosty today...and I can finally spend time getting organised for some fall projects...e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
