Hello Karen
That surprises me - I've only ever seen one pattern (modern torchon)
with a working angle as steep as that, and it was an experimental
design as part of a City Guilds exam course. Also maybe some of the
very distorted computer generated patterns might have small areas like
that
Hello Alice
No I haven't tried working out the thread size from a finished item!
Cloth stitch should have 4 threads between pinholes measured vertically
but only 2 threads between them if measured horizontally. Look at any
thread diagram to confirm this.
In torchon it means that in cloth
Hello Jo
Do you know if Martina measured by wrapping and then converting to dD
or did she use a micrometer?
If she did that would explain the differences.
Brenda
In tight curves it might happen that the worker kind of goes through a
tunnel. then your assumption might be true. Otherwise you
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Subject: Re: [lace] silk thread, and measuring in reverse
Hello Alice
No I haven't tried working out the thread size from a finished item!
Cloth stitch should have 4 threads between pinholes measured
vertically but
only 2 threads between them if measured horizontally. Look at any
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From: Brenda Paternoster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 6:25 PM
To: Karen
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Subject: Re: [lace] silk thread, and measuring in reverse
Hello Karen
I beg to try to straighten out some of the ideas discussed here. In
Maltese lace
In tight curves it might happen that the worker kind of goes through a
tunnel. then your assumption might be true. Otherwise you get much lesser
threads in a space. Even just wrapping differs from person to person. See my
comparison between Brenda and Martina in the figure at the bottom of
