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Dear Jean,
This sounds fascinating. I would love to know how she worked with one
hand for bobbins and one for pins. I wonder if it depends on the shape
of the pillow. As someone commented, she is just rolling them around
as they are suspended in air. I learned on a roller pillow with a flat
apron,
Devon,
The UK Lace Guild has a draft of a book on lacemaking by Ethel Nettleship in
which the instructions tell you to work with one hand for the bobbins and the
other for placing pins. I can’t remember the details and I’m away from home
right now but have them somewhere at home. I can look
acquire so much
fine control of my left hand. Mostly I use both hands equally. But my more
precise hand sets the pins.
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Subject: [lace] early lace video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc is may favorite
We used to have an English woman in our lace club, who made her tallies by
holding the 3 passive bobbins stationary with one hand, and just working the
weaving bobbin over, under, over, under, and so on. It was very quick. Pity
the film doesnât show the womanâs technique.
Adele
> On Jul
One person has suggested off list that the woman is a lefty, or
injured her hand in an accident. But I think that a lefty would put
the pins in with the left hand, because that is arguably the thing
that requires the most precision. When I was trying to make lace as
fast as possible, and it was
I think if you made lace for a living, you went as fast as you could, and
certainly making lace with one hand and putting in pins with the other is a
big step up in speed. Probably different lacemakers had different solutions to
the problem of âhow can I make this fasterâ.
I know when I was
Hello Devon and everyone
The method shown looks like the way to do it for speed in production. In a
way reminds me of the efficiency of movement when touch-typing (now there's
a dying art, ha ha).
I've accidentally made lace the way she is doing - except really *slow* -
when I was holding the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwcSaAXtZsc is may favorite to date,
although at 1931, I wish it was a little bit earlier.
For Saint Catherine's Day, I tried to explore the lace tells, and to
that end, and with the help of arachne, located a Bucks Point pattern
that is simple and intuitive, then
