This was designed while I was attempting to reproduce the needlepoint style punto in aria. Old needlepoint often has points which are tricky to reproduce with bobbin lace. Here I am exploring an idea. This pattern is connected with pattern 194.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 10 pairs
Style: Torchon wiggle (very experimental!)
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair
Details:
rose ground (green)
Torchon ground (grey)
footside without passives (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
The problem with a Torchon pattern with points is how do you get the difference in width? Here I was trying out an idea which didn't really work. It was a development from pattern 194, which used the wiggle principle to make the point. Read that pattern before trying to understand this pattern. The problem with pattern 194 was that there were holes in the centre of the points, which weakened the lace. Could I design a piece of lace which allowed pairs to cross from one side of the point to the other, providing some strengthening? This was what I was trying here.
The problem is that by losing pairs out of one side of the point (to go across to the other side), the point itself becomes very weak. It doesn't help that the edge of the point is just twist pairs, which are just not strong enough. They twist!
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