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Comment by Lorelei Halley on December 13, 2014 at 1:11pm

How puncetto was used in traditional peasant clothing from the Valsesia region:

http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2014/12/costume-and-embroidery-of-f...

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti. on July 7, 2014 at 11:51pm

Cat's Paw certainly sounds nicer than Death's Head!!!!!!!  :)

Comment by Avital on July 7, 2014 at 11:23pm

I'm glad you found the translation list helpful. Elana, the woman who used to sell the Puncetto books, helped me with some of the more obscure terms. Alessandra D, someone who found my blog and wrote to me, contributed a couple more. She told me that these days the "Death Head" motif tends to be called "Cat's Paw" because it sounds nicer. :-)

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti. on July 7, 2014 at 9:43pm

Thank you Avital.

I eventually worked out why the diagrams in the Puncetto book had different number of ticks to squares - when,working the return row (right to left). In an open square that is going to have a block over it, there is one less stitch. This allows the correct number of stitches to sit in the proper place. when I worked the same number of stitches all along the row, - on the next row (left to right) there were too many stitches in the block.  I see your diagram shows not working that stitch above the column, - but that made my block sit out of line. 

After studying the tiny photos in the book under the magnifier, and puzzling for a while, - the penny dropped as to why the ticks in the drawings were different for some squares!!  I am a bit slow on the uptake these days (Galloping Old Age)

Anyway, I started the square again, and it is, hopefully, looking a bit better!!

Working a different, "new" lace is quite a challenge - but fun!! I haven't tried the diagonals, yet, but I will remember your advice.

I am so grateful,  too, for the translation list you put up on your site.  It is a great help.

Comment by Lorelei Halley on July 7, 2014 at 1:19am

Avital

Nice to hear from you.

Comment by Avital on July 7, 2014 at 12:13am

Actually, the knot is a little different from Oya. The Oya knot has the thread going in a figure-8 path. Puncetto is more like a blanket stitch with an extra wrap.

I wear multifocals, too, and I swear by the Mageyes. I've used them since I used to knit miniatures. They are in front of your glasses, but not as close as clip-ons (for some reason, the distance seems to be an advantage) and you can push them up out of the way when you need to drink a cup of tea. Also, because they magnify the area in around my hands, I don't need to move them when I look at the chart with normal glasses. I couldn't do that with clip-ons because they cover the whole surface of the glasses lens.

Coloured puncetto is interesting but very fiddly. It also tends to get really bumpy because you're hiding so many thread ends under the stitches.

I posted some tips for working puncetto. One of the most important ones is #1, about thread stretching on the diagonals. Try to make those diagonal threads shorter than you think they need to be because the thread, even if it's not inherently elastic, will lengthen a tiny bit as the knots tighten.

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti. on July 6, 2014 at 9:02pm

I haven't tried Mageyes, but I have clip on magnifiers, but don't get on very well with them. My specs are Multi-focals. I suppose I should persevere. It may be just that I don't try using them too often!  I have a big magnifier with a small light within it (I use a sewing machine globe, and that is enough extra light, and does not get too hot on my hand).

I got on OK last night, after reading though your instructions, and applying them to the diagrams in the book. I suppose being written in English helped!! Your diagrams are so nice and clear, and I could then understand the 3 knots = 2 loops/stitches. and apply that to the book diagrams.  I have been doing a lot of the East. Med knotted lace - Oya type, and a bit of Bebilla, and that is quite different and more open, though the knot is the same!  I am working with some 20 Crochet cotton - feels like rope, after using finer threads!!  But I am determined to get this type of knotted lace working. I love the multicoloured samples in the other book, - but need to be confident in one coloured work, before I tackle anything from the other book!  I am enjoying it, - so that is the main thing! (Not much point in doing it otherwise!)

Comment by Avital on July 5, 2014 at 11:09pm

I use Mageyes when I'm doing cross-stitch on 36-count fabric. They might help you.

Comment by Elizabeth Ligeti. on July 5, 2014 at 10:35pm

Thank you Avital and Brona for your clear diagrams for stitches and techniques in this lace.  I got out the book, last evening, to try another piece, and these diagrams of yours are a great help to getting started, again. diagrams are easier to comprehend than a foreign language, and the photos in the Puncetto book!  I feel I can get started again, with some sort of success now!  I just have to sort out a thicker thread so I can see it without the big magnifier, so I can take the work out and about with me!! I have some 20 crochet cotton, I must look to see if I have some 30.  I found Lizbeth 40 a bit hard to see, but maybe because it was coloured, now white.. I must experiment!  I have been doing Oya type, which is easy to see, bhut Puncetto, with the stitches close together is a bit harder!!

(getting Old is not much fun - better than the alternative, - but only just, some days!!)

Comment by Lorelei Halley on September 12, 2013 at 2:18pm

Selena

One way to find out would be to do a search on our network, on puncetto thread.

Look for the black bar across the top of the screen.  At its right end is a search slot that only operates on laceioli.  It will give you links to every comment that contained the words "puncetto" and the word "thread".  Your question has probably been asked before. (Although I don't remember the answer.)

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