This is mundillo, or lace from Panama. Click here for more patterns.
These patterns are large scale, to show where the colours go. Reduce the pattern size, if you wish. There are coloured 'blobs' at the top and bottom of the patterns, showing where which coloured pair starts where (which is very important!) I have put these at both ends, so you can work the pattern either the British way, or the other way round.
Patterns:
Bobbins: 8 pairs (4 white, 1 purple, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue or 5 white, 1 red, 1 1 yellow, 1 blue)
Style: Torchon
Stitches:
half stitch
cloth stitch
cloth stitch and twist
twist single pair
Details:
fan headside (various)
Torchon ground (grey + various)
Winkie pin twisted footside (grey)
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace. These are both the same pattern, but using different colours.
Both patterns, although essentially the same, uses colour in slightly different ways. In each fan, both the worker pair and the edge pair are coloured, with different colours. The workers colour the fan, naturally. The edge pair are a different colour, and are 'hidden' at the edge.
The coloured pairs travel through the pattern as part of the Torchon ground or as either the edge pair or the passive pair in the footside. I've described the footside as Winkie pin twisted footside, but that is not strictly accurate. If the pair coming in is white, then it 'bounces off' the footside in the normal Winkie pin way. If it is coloured, then it swaps surreptitiously with either the passive or the edge pair. It is this swapping over which gets the correct coloured pair to the correct fan. Look at the pattern, and choose the correct pair to go in the correct direction, doing the right thing, or the colours just won't work! The different order of this swapping gives three colours or four colours of fan.
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