I wondered if you could get an effect of tartan in bobbin lace. My other experiments tried to get the tartan effect within cloth stitch (which is like weaving). Here it uses the Torchon ground.
Pattern:
Bobbins: 20 pairs (9 first colour, 9 second colour, 2 edge colour).
Style: Torchon
Size: 4 inches long
Stitches:
cloth stitch
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
Details:
Torchon ground
cloth diamond
cloth triangle
Description:
Follow the links above for explanation of how to work the different parts of the lace.
You need to start the coloured threads in the right place, as marked. Be careful! The starting pins have 2 pairs, one of each of the two main colours. But they differ as to which is loeft and which right. These must be correct for the tartan effect to work. Apart from this, this is an easy pattern to work. There are no problems which worker pair to choose, or where threads go when they leave a diamond, alike some of the other tartan patterns. I think it really does like like tartan (tilted).
Here is a larger scale photo, to see the working:
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