[lace] Pricking card and cereal boxes

2010-05-28 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 28/05/2010 14:35:26 GMT Daylight Time, hottl...@neo.rr.com writes: Now a question--has anyone used a cereal box as an inexpensive alternative for pricking card? All the time under either graph paper or a photocopy pricking. Not so often if I want to ink onto the card. It's

Re: [lace] Pricking card and cereal boxes

2010-05-28 Thread Claire Allen
Jacquie wrote And another example would be architects linen which was obviously never made for needle lacers. Now that's something I have experience of :o) I rescued a roll from going in the skip at work when we were clearing out the store room. It hadn't been used in Drawing Offices for

Re: [lace] Pricking card and cereal boxes

2010-05-28 Thread Brenda Paternoster
I understand that it's what is used for electronic circuit boards. However, many years ago in the late 1960s when I worked in a lab for Ministry of Defence in Woolwich Arsenal testing papers and boards we used to test something called 'glazed board' which used as casing for ammunition