For all who do pulled thread or drawn thread work or who want to learn. Pulled thread collects fabric threads into clumps, drawn thread removes some threads.
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Started by Louise Desmarais. Last reply by Lorelei Halley Mar 1. 12 Replies 1 Like
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In this album #92 is a really nice reticella type design:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102000751392732735975/RoseInVillaGiust...
Several others also.
A video of drawn thread work being done on a machine:
http://www.facebook.com/notifications?clk_loc=1#!/vera.cockuyt
Comment by carmel hines on May 8, 2012 at 21:59 Thank you Jenny for your reply to my question .I will have a play around and see what i come up with
Comment by Jana Charland-Krumrey on May 8, 2012 at 4:34 Thanks to Jenny and Lorelei for their input on that wonderful border. I thought it might be button-holed over cast-on thread as in a hedebo border, but surely you might get the same effect by a cut-work method.
Comment by Jenny on May 7, 2012 at 22:56 Carmel, a lady that I knew (who has since passed) was a wizz at fillet by withdrawing threads, and won prizes for her work. I always used to think that it was a cut 2 leave 2 mesh but Heather told me "not always". How many threads you leave & cut will depend on how big a hole you want left & what threads you will use in the fillings. Just experiment to see what works.
Comment by Jenny on May 7, 2012 at 22:50 With piece 11, I can't get a clear enough image to tell what has been done on that edge. It looks similar to a Snutki edge that I have done which was all buttonholed. The fabric was cut, tucked back underneath & buttonholed over. Excess fabric showing underneath was cut away. There is a pic of my piece at
http://jennysaustralianneedleart.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Snutki
Comment by carmel hines on May 7, 2012 at 22:05 I would like to know if someone could tell me for fillet lace in linen what count linen is used and how many threads are pulled out to make the grid?i have done hardanger and other pulled and drawn thread work and would like to give it a try Carmel
Oops. I meant #14. It mixes counted thread regularity with random blobs in a really interesting way.
I looked at 11 & 12, had to save it to my computer in order to enlarge it (haven't figured out how to do that on the google page). The circles are overcast on the edge that abuts the cloth, and buttonholed on the edge that faces outward. Cloth must have either been cut out, or snipped and folded under. The work is teeny tiny. Stefania, if the stitcher cut the circle assymetrically, she could have left a wider bit of folded fabric for the buttonhole stitch to work over, making it a bit wider than the buttonholing.
Comment by Stefania Bressan on May 7, 2012 at 7:18 Looks like half circle is done in buttonhole stitch and half in overcast stitch. I don't think it is a whole circle in overcast stitch with a buttonhole added outside, too thin for this solution, but I'm wondering if it could be a buttonhole stitch done over the overcast stitch in the outer part...
Comment by Ann Clare on May 7, 2012 at 5:53 This is the loveliest, most creative piece of Pulled and Drawn work that I've seen! Brilliant!
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