[HNW] Re: blackwork

[Carolyn Kayta Barrows]

>No one has yet mentioned my favorite cotton thread for blackwork:  Tatting 
>cord.  It is a very hard, strong, tightly spun thread, not fuzzy like 
>floss.  One strand of floss is very like a length of tatting cord.  It 
>provides a lovely, crisp line.

I actually mentioned it as a possibility, buried in my last post.  The 
stuff always looked like teensy perle cotton to me, but I'd only seen it in 
white and some pretty lurid colors (the ones that end up, unwanted, in 
thrift stores).  The balls say it's size 70, which I've heard is the same 
size as sewing thread which is what several other people have suggested. 
But if you suggest this specifically, then it must be available in 
black.  I'll try that next.

I really need to get my scanner hooked up.

        CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
          www.FunStuft.com

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