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Project for the New Year: tutorial on the technique of lace needle. Part One: the materials. Feedback from the Web

When you start the new year it is customary to look Back to evaluate the old year and making plans for the new one, we want to be left behind?
My main project as regards the blog, is to give impetus to a series of tutorials that explain in a simple way how to make lace needle. It would be more correct to say as I do, because I did not follow academic courses, the technique I use is the result of what I learned in short workshops, books and many trials. This is the method that gives me the best results in the simplest way.

I thought of starting a small business, a simple square, just to see how you set up your work and get some 'hands on the exchange wire, margins, finishing. It seems pointless to set a big job, being an experiment which is certainly not satisfactory.

This picture illustrates the need, as you can see a few things readily available.

In the upper left is the drawing of a square with 3 cm per side, on the right is a piece of tracing paper, you can replace it with baking paper, is a bit 'more fragile, but that's okay.
Below are two pieces of light card, I use the final page of magazines because it is very flexible, but also the card works like Bristol.
On the right is the thread that I have chosen Perl or Twisted No. 12 Fiorentino, or Rétors d'Alsace. Of course it is an unorthodox choice, but it is easy to work, you can clearly see (too!) Any errors. There is also a spool of sewing thread, sewing thread to add the same (quasi!) color of Perl, if possible.
If you use the lace to the white wire or very light color would be best to do the drawing on colored paper, so you can see the points better at work, the other alternative is to cover the drawing with a sheet of plastic desiva a colored, a process which uses the British, but in my area I've never found it.

prepare the card to work on the lace.
superimpose the two sheets of cardboard, paper and drawing with tracing paper and combine it all with un'imbastitura, stopping well wire with knots on the reverse. Eventually we round the corners with scissors. This seems unnecessary, but it's very useful because if we have the sharp edges of the wire will tend to engage in every step, making the work more tedious.

Here is how the card:

HERE you can download the PDF version