On 3/14/09 2:51 PM, Lorri Ferguson wrote:
. . . . You can often
find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are
usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square,
cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size needed. No
Has anyone thought of Copeland Linens in Ireland???
They do hankerchief linen as well as linens for embroidery.
Daphne Martin norfolk England
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:54:29 -0500
From: joybee...@comcast.net
To: lace@arachne.com
Subject: Re: [lace] lace on hankies
On 3/14/09 2:51 PM
I found some lovely quality mens handerchiefs on ebay and have them here now
for when the lace is ready. First one on the pillow now. Taking it on my
travel but will wash and press the hanky before I attach one to the other.
Sut T, Dorset UK
. . . . You can often
find good quality
Sue T Dorset, UK
Bobbin Lace and Glass engravings
http://www.hurwitzend.co.uk
Liz,
This one had me wondering about thread sizes and choice of hanky material.
If you were working lace of any kind in say cordonet 100 or something
similar on one and then chose to work bucks point which would be
Brenda wrote:
If you have an edging with corners what are the chances that a
readymade square of fabric will be exactly the right size without
easing/stretching the lace?
Another thing to bear in mind is that often the premade hankies with the
entredot sp edging are not always square. This
I bought a whole batch of different size hankies by mail order from the UK
many years ago. The edges were hemstitched ready to take lace, the quality
was beautiful fine Irish linen, but they were definitely NOT square. I
ended up drawing up my own simple edge which worked up about 4cm deep,
Hello Spiders,
Janice wrote that she made the lace very slightly larger than the actual
hankie and eased the fabric along the sides and corners to make the lace
fit.
This reminded me of the first Bucks hankie edging that I made. I originally
had planned to make a sample, but I was enjoying it
We touched on the subject of lace on hankies, and had reference to edging a
hanky with store bought lace. Since we had new people on the List who have not
seen the previous discussions in the past, I wanted to review a couple things
about lace on hankies from previous discussions.
Lace can
engravings
http://www.hurwitzend.co.uk
We touched on the subject of lace on hankies, and had reference to edging
a hanky with store bought lace. Since we had new people on the List who
have not seen the previous discussions in the past, I wanted to review a
couple things about lace on hankies from
Just a reminder as I believe it has been mentioned here before. You can often
find good quality handkerchief material in 'men's' handkerchiefs. They are
usually larger than women's so after finishing your 'lace edging' in a square,
cut down the center of the 'man's handkerchief' to the size
If you want some nice hankies all ready to attach lace try hhtatting.com
(Handy Hands Tatting) and check out their catalog.
Norma (Salem, VA)
http://normasneedlez.blogspot.com
http://sistersstitching.blogspot.com
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