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I found this item on Ebay a while back, and have been finding more and more of its information.  This photo isn’t of the individual piece that I got (it’s from another site that had one on offer) but it’s [...]

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These are quills of organzine that I’m sending to a friend of mine who makes lace.

In each photo, they are in order from left to right: 2×2, 3×2, 4×2, and 3×3.

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I found out that I can do this in the course of a (longish) evening:

That’s a bobbin full of four-strand tram.  I can do the tram much faster, because it’s twisted about five times per inch, [...]

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That’s an ounce and a half of three-ply organzine singles… tightly twisted from three filaments, about 20 twists per inch.  I’m curious to see what I end up with, length-wise; mathematically, it ought to be about three thousand [...]

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and then you skein, and then degum… and then you get organzine!

Here’s a comparison of the 4×2 and the 2×2… they’re not all that different, until you start working them up in larger amounts – and then the [...]

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I’m making more organzine…. this time, for bobbin lace and sewing.

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If you set the caterpillars up on a surface where they can’t find a corner, they’ll make this stuff.  It doesn’t hurt them, although it probably frustrates their instincts.  After spinning out their silk, they turn into a healthy pupa.

This is the surface of the paper.  One of the things I learned from [...]

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I borrowed a friend’s Lendrum wheel (Thanks, Christina!) and did some throwing.  The Lendrum’s high-speed head allowed me to get good fine twist, something that had been a problem previously.