Here’s a look at the process of tacking the Saint Saens
doily onto fabric in preparation for framing:
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| starting to mount |
I found out the hard way, I need lots of accurate
guidelines to make it look nice. It can take several hours to sew in those
lines, but well worth the trouble.
Then, I start sewing down the tatting. Yes, each and
every picot gets a tack down. I try to make sure gravity will not pull the
tatting out of shape over time. So, that means a tack at the top of each
element, either side of beads, and wherever it makes sense. Probably the
trickiest part is making sure I don’t pull too tight and make the tatting
buckle or the fabric pull out of shape. Oh, and the wood circular frame is not
true. It’s just a smidge out of round. So, I’m constantly measuring from a
rather arbitrary point that I call center.
More later.
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