Thank you to all who replied with pictures and diagrams. I now have a
beautifully turned and polished roller for my lace and and it gave DH a good
excuse to work on his lathe.
Ann
Yorkshire UK
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My feelings about this are that yes working lace with arthritis does work
(up to a point) no huge weights pulling on your hands and for us craft
lacemakers we can work at our own speed.
the movements do prevent my hands and fingers getting too painful and stiff,
so great and enjoyable to.
Hi Jenny
On 10 Apr 2009, at 04:34, Jenny Brandis wrote:
One of the things I do to my copies is add tabs on the pages at
Graph, Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetic, Glitter, 4 wpc, 29 wpc, 33 wpc
as well as at 50 wpc.
This helps me and although I realise that it would not be cost
effective to do
Is it Pollytir? I have been purchasing bobbins from him and had suspected
this because the spangles are all good and very, very similar. I don't know
whether I have been doing the right thing, but as someone said in another
message, we do want to restore our furniture, don't we? and the
Diana said replacing tinsel, wire, beads, spangles - totally out of order
(IMO)
This is another It all depends situation to me. If he/she is passing the
bobbins off as original condition, to sell them for more money then yes,
it's out of order.
I don't have any 'pristine condition' old bobbins
I used to use the little yellow stickie notes from the office, for tabs, but
now use the transparent coloured removable post-it flags, writing a one-word
reference, or one-letter e.g. C for cotton. I have one tab for the wraps
section - it depends on the user how you would divide this part, that's
FWIW my great uncle swore that the wives tales of wearing copper to ward
off
arthritis were true once he tried it himself, and always wore a copper
bracelet when he was older.
Copper 'bracelets' have been used on horses with arthritis, with good
results, and as they (the horses) don't respond
Copper bracelets didn't work for me either. I don't have arthritis, but they
are said to cure any body pains as well so I tried one - it just made me
so very sleeeppy (more than I usually am)!
Karen in Malta
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I support what Jean has said about lacemaking keeping the hands exercised so
they don`t stiffen so much.
People who tell me I could`nt do theat with my hands. I advise to take
lacemaking up and see.
So despite whatever is said about lacemaking and Arthritis. It does work!!!
So you have another
During the early 17th century there was a fashion for starching lace
yellow. Also, sometimes, one sees lace that looks like lace of that era that is
yellow, brownish or saffron in color. Do you think that these colors could
have been the result of a residue of yellow starch, or are they
I remember hearing a lecture by someone who was very knowledgeable about
antique bobbins. Someone asked her the same question. Her answer was
that it was perfectly OK to put new wire and /or tinsel on a bobbin, and
likewise it's OK to change the spangle or add one to a bobbin which has
lost
I think it's likely that the yellowing was more caused by the fact
that the starch was taken from vegetable matter. It wasn't until the
1850's that Reckitts introduced blueing to washing in order to
counteract the yellowing left by repeated starching.
Sue in EY
On 10 Apr 2009, at 20:36,
Clay Blackwell wrote:
Far too many of the antique bobbins I see on eBay have
pristine, prissy, perfectly matched modern spangles instead of the
spangles usually found on antique bobbins.
I have the opposite problem at the moment. I bought some bobbins on
Ebay that have lovely old
In Aileen Ribiero's book about 17th century fashion, and in other books
there is reference to one Ann Turner who went to her hanging in yellow starched
lace. Also, in the Ribiero book, which is in color, allowing one to see some
familiar portraits for the first time in color, there are
Potatoes much frosted will make very good starch, though it is a shade
darker in color. All coarse clothes requiring to be stiffened, where
whiteness is no object, may be done with starch made from potatoes
greatly penetrated with frost. The best method of making potatoes into
starch is to
_To Wash and Starch Lawns._
Lawns may be done in the same manner as the former, only observe to
iron them on the wrong side, and use gum arabic water instead of
starch and, according to what has been directed for sarcenets, any
colored silks may be starched, abating or augmenting the
I suppose that the other thing we should remember is that back in the
1600's, heating water was a laborious process, so clothing and bodies
were not washed that regularly. Indeed the elizabethans used threads
(like cotton wool, but thicker) in bone holders with holes in (they
looked like
Hi Lesley,
If the shape of the bobbins, and the wood they're made of, appeal to
you, then spending a little time smoothing them with fine sandpaper and
a coat or two of a sealant (I use Acrylic on bobbins on the rare
occasion that I paint them...), will make them more thread-friendly.
But if
Hi, Brian
And I replied to you privately, too
No, I can tell you a Leopard bobbin does Not ward off arthritis!!! :))My
late friend had Gold injections to try to help her, - but not Pewter! :)
However, they are pretty on the pillow working away amongst all the other
pretty
dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
In Aileen Ribiero's book about 17th century fashion, and in other books there
is reference to one Ann Turner who went to her hanging in yellow starched lace.
Also, in the Ribiero book, which is in color, allowing one to see some familiar
portraits for the first
Hi Robin and everyone
If I'm not mistaken, the silk used in Maltese lace is the Tussah silk, from
cocoons of silk worms that ate wild mulberry leaves, yielding a shiny beige
thread, as opposed to the bright white silk from a diet of cultivated
mulberry.
It doesn't help the yellow starch topic
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Lesley
I've done a small amount of bobbin making myself, and i recommend using 400
grit sandpaper and a very light touch. I'm sorry to say that whoever made
your bobbins was just plain lazy. Getting is smooth is the bobbin maker's
job. Perhaps whoever it was doesn't have a lacemaker in the
Didn't know there was anyone in the world who actually felt passionate about
tofu.hard to imagine.
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Poor vegetarian lady...
On Apr 10, 2009, at 13:09, Kim Davis wrote:
Didn't know there was anyone in the world who actually felt passionate
about
tofu.hard to imagine.
Well... I'm a dedicated carnivorous animal but, like the lady of the
story, I too love tofu (as in: bean curd, not the other meaning);
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