Exploded lace (crochet)

I think it's just a fancy phrase for what many of us have been doing for years. In my collection I have patterns from the 1950s and 1970s for just this kind of thing, and I have a beautiful inherited crocheted wool lace shawl in about a sport or dk weight which I know to be more than 50 years old.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Heh, yeah, I used the crochet patterns in the `How To Knit, Crochet and Tat' book to practice crocheting with larger hooks and yarn. No way was I going to use thread and tiny little hooks.

sue

Oooo.... I have to get that book.

I agree, Mirjam. It isn't even a correct use of the term as it has been used for diagrams, because 'exploded diagrams' are both enlarged and separated into sections for clarity. The crochet is just bigger; it hasn't been clarified by separation, unless she really has adapted the patterns to add blank spaces put between the fancier parts. That can be done to frame and emphasize a key element, but it didn't sound to me as though that was the idea she had.

=Tamar

You don't even need to use thinker yarns. I did an afghan using a size P hook, the hook typically used with the yarn is a size G or H. At first it looked really funny with these giant and very loose stitches but once put togeather it looks wonderful. Come to think of it I should take a picture.

Mirjam Bruck-Cohen skrev:

And THANK YOU, Mirjam because my mind has always had a few "holes" in it (like a sieve!) and I had totally forgotten that this book includes knitting and crocheting examples! I have 3 other books in The Art of Sewing series and highly recommend them to anyone who can find them second-hand. The examples are dated, of course, and sometimes I howl with laughter, but there are good diagrams and explanations of the

Erin (now I am off to the kitchen to suck-down some of my fix, um, I mean "have a nice cup of tea." :-)

THANK you Thernody , because , your letter , reminded me of something i read in the 1970s , and i went to the book opened it and it is good to know , that my mind still has a quite a good memory On page 159 , in the book Shortcuts to Elegance , in the series \the art of Sewing , by the editors of Time-Life books, time life publishers 1973 ,,,,,, Title GIANT STICHES FOR FASTER NEEDLEWORK .........\above all, large needles and hooks are Labour-saving devices.....etc,,,,, a whole story is told and calculations show how bigger stiches make for less working time ,,, It has happened before , people took old patterns formerly crochted with tiny hooks and now make them with bigger hooks thicker wools. Like in the 1970s , the will to make some useful creative tecjnique is there , but therte is less time , hence bigger sized needles are the answer,,,, And on another question , i have never heard this term `exploded` lace, amd i HOPE that it will not be accepted by anyone as a term ,,, explosions are not a funny thing, and i don`t think one should use such a term,,,,, using it in this way, ends up in legalizing or having more tolerance for the bad side of that term. mirjam

Thank you Erin , was pleased to be of use , i have several of those books , got them when they came out ,,,,, also `lost` one or two , that mysteriousely left the house and never came back,,,,, several others have knitting . crochet and embroidery as well. Most patterns are outdated ,,, but all techniques are WONDERFUL ,,,,