Bias Grounds

Contents

• Introduction
• Traditional Bias Ground
  • examples with one middle stitch
  • examples with two different middle stitches
  • examples with two different units
• Bias Ground crossed rose style
• Bias Ground crossed alternating
• Bias Ground with a diagonal in between
• Bias Ground crossed and a diagonal in between
• Unit bias in a diamond
• Bias Ground crossed and in a diamond
• Short bias
  • solo
  • crossed
• Alternate bias
• Double bias
• Bias with vertical
• Stretched
  • stretched bias
  • small snowflake
  • zig-zag

Introduction

Traditionally, a bias ground is made as follows: make two stitches diagonally, make a stitch in the middle with these two, make two diagonal, stitch in the middle, etc.
Sometimes, the bias ground is referred to as rose ground, especially the bias crossed rose style and crossed short bias.

Traditional Bias Ground

examples with one middle stitch

examples with two different middle stitches

examples with two different units

Bias Ground crossed rose style

This ground is also called rose ground.
See also mrs Whiting’s index: D6 and F4.

Bias Ground crossed alternating

See also mrs Whiting’s index: E6.

Bias Ground with a diagonal in between

Bias Ground crossed and a diagonal in between

Unit bias in a diamond

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Bias Ground crossed and in a diamond

Short Bias

solo

Take just one unit of the Bias ground and place them all in the same direction, or in alternating directions. The latter may give nice results in two colours. The placing of the units in alternating directions is also shown in mrs Irvine’s paper Developing a Mathematical Model for Bobbin Lace.

crossed

Take one unit of the Bias ground, place them in alternating directions, and cross at the corners.

Alternated bias

Double bias

Of course, this pull-back through two can be extended further: pull-back through three, through four, … However, GroundForge does not support working upwards.

Bias with vertical

Stretched

The examples below show three different units. The units are placed like the white tiles on a checkerboard.
These grounds also look nice when made on a hexagonal raster, connecting the units with a short plait.

stretched bias

A bias ground, stretched vertically, as found in mrs Whiting’s index F4.

equivalent to the small snowflake

zig-zags

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