This is one of the gloves with the painting pattern all done, ready for embroidery. I have currently completed all the motifs that are anything but "gold" on both gauntlets. I almost have the first two tabs complete on the first gauntlet. The purl takes a lot of time to do...
I still can't get the maiden net pattern, and rather than spend more time on it right now, I'm reminding myself that the reason I'm doing this lace at all is to make a trim for the gloves. I have already mastered a simple braid pattern that is charted from the extant gloves, so I don't need this net at this time. I need to learn to do picots and I think I could start to play with the real thing. Well, it wouldn't hurt to learn how to do a fan or spiders, those look like the lace patterns of the period, so those would be good to know.
Tonight I'll set up a basic training pattern on paper that I can pierce and work with, with fans, spiders, whatever filler I need, and, hopefully, picots. I have clear tape to cover the paper so it will last a while. I did find that both the tool I was hoping would work as a pricker and the cork I'd picked up for a pricking board, worked well for the job. The biggest problem I had there was telling if I'd got all the holes.
Well, off to work on more purl on the gloves. It is slowly coming together and I'm really enjoying it.
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