[Nfb-krafters-korner] Macramé with Gimp or Plastic Lace

Wed Apr 28 16:49:01 UTC 2010

Dixie;
Are you saying the got the term lace from the idea, like lacing your shoes or lacing the holes in leather to make something.  When I heard lace, I was thinking of the holes you find in fabric lace.  Now this makes more sence.
See my comment made sence after all.  
Lace has 2 meanings.
Thanks for your explination.
Terry

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From: Dixie [mailto:blueherons at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:21 AM
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I have made macramé with the plastic lace or Gimp.  I think the reason it is called plastic lace, is short for lacing as it is used  to lace together two pieces of leather at times.  Anyway, there are two styles of this gimp.  one is a flat maybe 1/8 inch wide lace and this tends to have a bit of stiffness to it.  It can at times work itself loose from the knot.  There is a newer, version, maybe 10 years old we used with my Girl Scout troop.  It is not flat like the lace but round. I would say it was about the diameter of a
round toothpick.   It is much more flexible, and a bit stretchy.  It holds
the knot better, but is less strong, or durable like the lace or rope would be.  

Dixie

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I wonder if this would be appropriate for macrame.
It sounds like knotting it would make a cute pouch or pot hanger or belt.
I started knotting a full sized purse made of something like this -- didn't remember it being called gimp, but it was like thin plastic cord that was flexible enough for knotting but stiff enough to make a strong fabric.  It started out looking quite nice, but alas, it got thrown into my unfinished projects box when I went to college and I haven't seen it since.
--le

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Gimp is about as thick as three ply yarn but made of hard plastic, but 
flexible.  It comes in many colors.  Kids used to make bracelets out of it, 
when I was young.  They used either knots or twisting to weave it together. 
I think it was knots.

Terry

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From: Zimmer, Cindy [mailto:cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 5:58 PM
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Terry,
Not sure what gimp is...maybe it is the same.  I'll go to the internet and 
check.  From what I can tell, it is different, yet similar.  Plastic lace is

flat, about 1/8 inch wide and comes in many colors.

Cindy

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What in the world is plastic lace.  Are you sure it was not gimp?

Terry

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Carol and Joyce,
Knots are used to make lanyards, key chains, zipper pulls and ceiling fan 
pulls. I have seen this done with plastic lace and it is fairly cheap.

Cindy Zimmer

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Carol,

Did you make something with the knots?  What type of material did you  use 
to make the knots? rope?  cord?

Depending on what you use there are all types of things you can make with 
knots.  A lot of the friendship bracelets use different knots to create 
them.

I would love to have you do this class.
Joyce
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