Re: [lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-30 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Janice, sorry but I am wondering that you told us this It is usually surrounded by a gimp which makes it look like round holes. I have a few pattern were it is like this but mostly the honeycomb is without gimp. Looking throgh the book from Br. Cook "The Bobbin Lace Stitches" I am very aston

Re: [lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-30 Thread Ilske Thomsen
Janice, as far as I know normaly, if one work a gimp around the honeycomb, it is outside of all six pinholes. But as a variation you can do in another way but it gives a totaly new view. And it is not nice to work. Ilske - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

Re: [lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-29 Thread Janice Blair
8, Patty Dowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Patty Dowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [lace] Honeycombe delight To: "Janice Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "lace" Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 9:05 PM At 04:44 PM 8/29/2008, Janice Blair wrote: &

Re: [lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-29 Thread Patty Dowden
At 04:44 PM 8/29/2008, Janice Blair wrote: Mark, I think your fan has Roseground not Honeycombe. Honeycombe has six pinholes, one at top, two on the sides and one at the bottom. It is usually surrounded by a gimp which makes it look like round holes. It is also one of my favorites. Roseground

RE: [lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-29 Thread Noelene Lafferty
I had another look at Mark's fan - there is honeycomb in the centre of the silver gimp surrounded flowers towards the outer edge, but just individual honeycombs, pushed apart by the heavy gimp. The ground closer to the centre is roseground. Honeycomb is my favourite ground in Torchon too - I des

[lace] Honeycombe delight

2008-08-29 Thread Janice Blair
Mark, I think your fan has Roseground not Honeycombe.  Honeycombe has six pinholes, one at top, two on the sides and one at the bottom.  It is usually surrounded by a gimp which makes it look like round holes.  It is also one of my favorites.  Roseground is definitely not a favorite of mine.  I see