I agree with Jane. To me shredding means the thread disintegrating due to
friction , snapping is a sudden breakage caused by too much tension, either
heavy handedness or a weak thread and feathering is the thread just pulling
apart, usually because it has become untwisted.
I don't usually
In a message dated 24/02/2010 08:40:39 GMT Standard Time,
francis.busscha...@telenet.be writes:
so the threads will never ever shred on the surface the leather is
highpolllished
Hi Francis,
Leather or plastic is nice to use with continental bobbins, where you want
them to slide, but with
In a message dated 24/02/2010 11:11:09 GMT Standard Time,
jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk writes:
Could they have formed the first pair wound
Unlikely. Mum was of the school to wind her bobbins in pairs, and as I
remember there was a *pair* working the cloth stitch fans. Different enough to
And that leather thing dear friends is what got me hooked into lace making,
on a visit to Honiton before I had even heard of bobbin lace we popped into
a gift shop and I heard this wonderful rhythmic sound , followed my ears and
there sat an old lady making lace with a leather cover exactly as you
Ah- HA! Then it's definitely the lace gremlins! I suspect they've been
around since dirt, but in modern times, some of them have morphed into
computer gremlins.
Clay
Never did solve the mystery, unless, possibly, had been wound those two
bobbins with a different thread somehow. But if
When we (Jacquie, Tamara, Julie and I) went to IOLI in Montreal, Jacquie and
Tamara were taking a course doing Cluny de Brioude. Tamara made 'leather'
cover cloths and I was given one which I still enjoy using. Tamara would be
able to tell you what she bought to make the cloths with.
Some
I was also in the Cluny de Brioude class in Montreal. Our class
materials instructed us to bring a leather piece to work on. I was
fortunate to find a remnant of a very soft deerskin leather,
comparatively thin and very pliable, plus it felt wonderful to the
touch. I believe there were some
