Tanne/cotona is designed as a machine embroidery thread and like all machine
threads it has a Z twist to suit the way sewing machines work. If it causes
problems with the way you personally work BL the solution is to try and find S
twisted thread; most linens, cotton perle, cotton a broder etc.
> On 25 Jan 2019, at 23:43, hottl...@neo.rr.com wrote:
>
> After finishing pattern #3 in Intro to Bedfordshire Lace by Jean Leader, I
> wasn't as thrilled as I had hoped to be. I've posted a pic to Arachne Flickr
> & would appreciate some constructive comments.
Susan,
Looks like you’ve
Hi Susan
'Tatting thread' is DMC Special Dentelles 80 which is identical to Cordonnet
80 which is only a tiny smidgin finer than Cordonnet 70 - so in effect you did
use tatting thread.
The gimp thread in traditional Bedfordshire lace is a softer but round thread,
the difference in thickness to
Dear Susan. The main difference between Tanne 30 and Cordonnet 70 is that the
Tanne is a 'sewing thread' and the Cordonnet is a 6 ply crochet thread which
is much harder and gives a textured effect.
I suggest that when you get back to your Bedfordshire lace, get some Tanne 30
(now called Madeira
when I learned to make Beds. after the book from Barbara M. Underwood I read in
her book:
Bedfordshire Lace is an East Midlands guipure lace; i.e. it has no net ground,
the design being supported and connected by plaits and brides. It was derived
indirectly from Italian bobbin laces, but more
Susan
The story we are told is that the style called Bedfordshire was a result of
an international fair in the mid 19th century, which exhibited Maltese lace.
Supposedly, Bedfordshire-Maltese was an attempt to design laces using
similar techniques and ideas, and supposedly it would be faster to
Hi Susan,
That's an interesting question! especially given the similarities between
Beds and the early mimics of Punto in Aria, as in LePompe. I personally
have not handled a piece of lace that seemed to be older than the mid-19th
C that I would call Beds, but "Beds" is a name based on a
Oops... I forgot to say that didn't I?? The postage was less than
expected as well!
BTW Jacqui, we may come and bop you if you don't think about coming to
our Lace Day a week on Saturday!!! LOL
Sue in East Yorkshire
On 3 Nov 2011, at 12:53, laceandb...@aol.com wrote:
I would add that
Hello Dee,
After making the picot and making the first CTC, try pulling from one
bobbin, then from the other... and you will see what happens. When you pull
the correct one the little hole disappears, but when you pull the wrong one,
the hole appears. So, it is a matter of tensioning, and you get
I haven't done a lot of Beds, and not for a while, but I seem to recall that
the picot is wound around the pin differently, depending on which side of the
braid it is on. If you have the little hole sometimes, it may be because
you're winding it around the pin in the wrong direction.
Clay
--
Christine Springett teaches picots as follows:
- picot on the left: twist pair 5x - lay outer bobbin loosely around pin
in a clockwise direction and put back in outer position - lay inner
bobbin clockwise around the pin and return to inner position - twist 2x
- now gently pull up both threads
Mark your calendar for the 2008 IOLI Convention. Yvonne Scheele will be
teaching a Beds class--and she has a new book coming out the first of the year.
Carole
Dublin, OH
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Hi. You're not very far from The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale, California. They sometimes hold Beds
classes and may have more than one person in their
files who teaches it. Or they may have a contact with
a nearby group who is having a class.
The other thing you might check out is the Winter
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Hi. You're not very far from The Lace Museum in
Sunnyvale, California. They sometimes hold Beds
classes and may have more than one
Dear Lisa,
The Winter Lace Conference in Costa Mesa, CA will have Holly VanSciver giving a
course in Beds - all levels. She is a marvelous teacher and you will be
well-served by making the trip to CA.
Get in touch with Betty Ward at 1-714-522-8118 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another
contact is
Since lacemaking has been around for 500 years,
'relatively new' could be a couple hundred years.
More to the point, the book Les Dentelles Aux Fuseaux
by Dillmont has many corner patterns, and the author
died in 1890.
I can't give an earler reference, but I think corners
came in during the
I'm at work, and have class tonight so can't get more specific until the
weekend. But as I recall there are examples of BL worked corners in Santina
Levey's Lace, a History dating from the 1500-1600s
Beth McCasland
in the 'burbs of New Orleans where we have spring like weather.
-Original
Hello Noelene
In my research I have an instance of a 'Straw plaiter' who later became a
'lacemaker'. Maybe the person you found was a worker of both if they are
both recorded.
There is a very distant bell ringing in my head of seeing somewhere a sample
of lace made from straw. Another bell
Hello Diana
Some of the plaited straw work is delicate enough to be called lace
anyway. On a couple of occasions Lace Guild Conventions have included
straw plaiting displays and IIRC as a taster workshop also. But you
are right, straw plaiting (mostly for hats) went alongside BL in
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