I just was searching for something else, and ran across the tab I had started
searching on. Though I don't have time to look much, I thought you might
enjoy this article and find it informative, as it has a visual and commentary
with comparisons on Silk Purse Twist:
http://patternsalacarte.blogspo
Did you see this?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/80300617/antique-purse-twist-silk-thread-new-old
Pretty fine, and appears to be like the silk threads that YLI, etc. make...
Belding Corticelli Buttonhole Twist that I have on hand is much thicker than
this, and would be what I would tend to use, esp.
Perhaps an overly simplistic approach, and my memory may have slid, but I
thought there was a reference to Corticelli Buttonhole Twist?
My rough guess
(without getting out my supply) would be that it is very roughly comparable to
#8 perle cotton, or perhaps #12? Of course perle cotton would not b
The Belding Corticelli Buttonhole Twist is available at better fabric
stores. Last I had seen, Treadle Yard Goods (1338 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul,
MN
651-698-9690) had some.
www.treadleyardgoods.com
Since that market is
dying overall (except quilting cottons) you could try Fabric.com and s
The reason why the thinner 150 den Argentina silk and the thicker 70/2
Colcotton are both listed as 32 w/cm is because when the Argentina was wrapped
it flattened and therefore spread out more than the Colcoton did. This happens
with any loosely spun thread and will have happened to a lesser ex
Please can you tell me more about these? I'm trying to source some pure
silk to begin working on a wedding veil, and I also like to work with silk but
any kind of silk, other than cloth, is unavailable in Malta and I have to buy
it off the internet.
My first attempt didn't work well.
Thanks Tamara, I will try that, if not as you said I can put it on the shelf
to admire (my friends think I'm batty to have a load of old thread reels on
the shelf, but I like them)
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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On Mar 20, 2009, at 18:20, Sue Harvey wrote:
I have been given two large wooden reels of silk thread [...] the
reels are full of lovely silk thread which I cannot use because it
breaks at the slightest touch, does anyone know of a way to make this
thread useable again [...]
Essentially, onc
On Apr 19, 2008, at 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the source of the silk thread used for Maltese lace? That
wonderful luminous cream silk ...
No clue about the silk used for Maltese lace, except the fact that the
more modern Maltese uses synthetic thread, probably rayon (which can b
On 4/7/08 12:47 PM, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Jane has already answered this quite comprehensively; the
main difference in use between reeled silk and spun silk
is that reeled/filament silk is shinier and more slippery
than spun silk.
Spun silk is also quite a lot weaker than reeled silk,
beca
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From: "bevw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Cc: "Lace Arachne"
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] Re: Silk thread/sea silk
You can find something about seasilk here:
http://www.tuttoricamo.com/trM
Hi Jeri and everyone
Thankyou for the interesting links.
This caught my eye:
>
> Does anyone on our international list know about Sea Silk?
...because I have just purchased some lovely dyed knitting yarn called 'Sea
Silk' - 70% silk, and 30% 'sea cell' - a kelp-based fibre. It has potential
for
In a message dated 4/14/07 9:07:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The only source that I'm aware of for reeled silk is Pipers
> www.pipers-silks.com On their website, they state: "All our Fine Twisted
> Silks, High Gloss Floss Silks, Twisted Semi-Gloss Silks, Twisted Glos
I have been using Gutermann's Silk Twist for gimps and love how they've
come up in my lace. Great colours and great contrast to my working
threads.
I have used Mulberry silks once before - I bought some of their whitest
silk for the lace for my wedding gown, and it worked up wonderfully. I
have
If it was intended for general machine sewing it was probably Gutermann
100/3 (S303) which I've measured as 27 wraps/cm. Would suit torchon
drafted on a 2mm grid, as do most ordinary sewing machine threads.
Brenda
On 21 Aug 2006, at 07:35, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
How would you rate/gauge the
How would you rate/gauge the thread size as related to 'lace' threads?
Have you made up any thing yet, how did it handle?
Lorri
JoAnne's periodically has half-off all threads. I'd recommend waiting
for the next thread sale--that's what I did.
Robin P.
I was just at my local JoAnne's a
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:00:24 -0500, Tamara wrote:
> Or, maybe, someone
>will tell us where Pagoda can be bought; I seem to remember that it had
>been mentioned here before, but it's the case of "I can hear the bells
>ringing, but don't know which church"...
That was me. I've written about Pago
On 19 Feb 2004, at 01:00, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Ann-Marie and Brenda,
Claire Burkhard's "50 New Bobbin Lace Patterns" has two patterns which
use Pagoda silk; both are worked in strips, later on joined to form a
wider scarf. Both are "Torchon-esque" in appearance, so I assume
Torchon "rules"
On Feb 18, 2004, at 18:00, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
On 18 Feb 2004, at 18:30, Ann-Marie Lördal wrote:
Hello
I got the danish lace magazine Kniplebrevet today and on the last
page there
is a lovely scarf. It is made in 2-ply Bourette silk, 10.000 m/kg and
Pagoda
silk.
I have looked in Brendas b
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