Many of the English bobbins are made from fruit wood. Most regions would
have grown fruit trees and so it would have been readily available.
I have a couple of the Malmsbury bobbins that are tapered style. From my
memory of them they are fairly dark coloured and therefore probably not
fruit wood. They are modern reproductions as far as I know.
Malvary in Ottawa where we had a mini thaw yesterday, but bright and sunny
today and a bitterly cold wind.
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