Jo's Kantelier - Draw yourself Flanders meshes

This page shows how you can do with pencil and tracing paper, what the generator does with 6 clicks. You can give this template to your friends without internet.

Suppose you want a drawing of the following stitch:

cloth stitch	whole stitch	cloth stitch
half stitch	pin	half stitch
cloth stitch	whole stitch	cloth stitch

Print the template in colour. Commercial use or changing anything is not allowed. When you work with the closed method (first twist then cross), turn it upside down.
Place tracing paper on template and prevent it somehow form moving. Carefully trace from figure A the dots, arrows and orange and red half stitches above and under the pins. This results into figure 1.
Shift the tracing paper until the tracing arrows match exactly the arrow of figure B. Now trace the brown and purple whole stitches left and right form the pins. That results into figure 2. When tracing accurately the treads will continue nicely from the previously traced stitches.
Shift again and trace the blue and green cloth stitches from figure C. That results into figure 3.
Cut out the traced stitch. Place it on figure D matching the arrows. Put the large remaining piece of tracing paper on top. Trace the previously constructed stitch and all the pin-dots, skip the arrows.
Shift the large tracing paper, to trace another stitch. Figure 5 shows in black the result of the previous step, blue is visible through the tracing paper. Repeat this step.
Trace the total drawing again with colours as shown in figure 5. This reveals how the threads run through the lace.

Copyright

© J. Falkink-Pol, Jan. 2004
It is not allowed to use the drawing method for any commercial purpose without previous written consent, otherwise my name and web address should always be clearly visible.