This has a Torchon grid and Torchon ground, but also uses gimps heavily, so I have designated it as Bucks Point.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 9 pairs + 5 gimps
Style: experimental Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
gimp (pink, green and blue)
twist single pair
Details:
Torchon ground (grey)
footside without passives (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
At last I have worked out how to do Greek keys! The trick is to use gimps.
The pink lines are gimps rather than the normal footside passives. This makes them the framing lines which are common in Greek key patterns (but had to be left out in my previous patterns, as things were quite complicated enough already!)
The problem is that the line of the Greek key goes up as well as down. So there have to be lots of short gimps. You hang a pair of gimps from the pin on the pattern. Another gimp is already coming down on one side (which makes 3 gimps in the middle of the pattern plus two gimps in each footside). Two of these gimps overlap (shown as two different coloured lines next to each other) where they finish. Then a new pair gets started again a bit further down.
I think that the gimps need to be a different colour to the Torchon ground to be effective. You could even use a pair of threads rather than a conventional single gimp. So when two gimps are hung from a pin, hang 2 pairs instead. Treat the two threads replacing the gimp as if they were a single thread. It will make the bobbin count to be 14 pairs.
There is a lot of stopping and starting gimps in this pattern, which is a bit irritating. Never mind - it produces an effective result!
© Jo Edkins 2017 - return to lace index