The problem is that the time spent turning or whittling bobbins was very much
less than the time spent using them. Then, as now, bobbins could be passed on
for generations and still be functional.
By the 1920s lacemaking was a dying skill but in the mid 19th century a lot of
the female
Thank you, Ruth. What a lovely idea. Is it too late to contribute, do you
think?
Lesley
Ruth Budge thelacema...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
A couple of years back, The Lace Guild asked lacemakers all around the world
to make a small piece of lace and attach it to a luggage label, put their
A couple of years back, The Lace Guild asked lacemakers all around the world
to make a small piece of lace and attach it to a luggage label, put their
names and roughly where they came from on it. These are now held at The
Hollies as a sort of census of lacemakers all over the world.
Ruth
Hello Nobuko
On the internatioanl lace digest arachne.com an informal census of
numbers of lace makers world wide
is in progress.
We had a response from Rieko Tamura (see below), but wondered if you
have any idea of numbers of lace makers
in your part of Japan. This includes bobbin lace, tatting
I skimmed the first 10 pages of googling with bobbin lace site:.jp and
added the most interesting to
http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/linknew-EN.html
It is still an unorganised mess
Jo
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WOW!!! What an incredible collection of information!!! Thank you so muc, Jo!!
I don't think it's a mess at all... drool, drool, drool. (well, maybe
soon!!) ; )
Clay
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Clay Blackwell
Lynchburg, VA USA
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Thank you Jo for providing the links. I did look for the google listing and
got very well lost in the vast volume.
On the Japanese web site -- the Chicken was extremely well designed and a
delight to analyze.
Diane Zierold
Lubec, Maine
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There are bobbin and tatting lace books published purely in Japanese - I
have a beauty, ISBN 4-579-10822-1, brought back from Japan by a friend, and
she has several others. And a Google search of bobbin lace Japan and go
to the end of the list for all Japanese script sites will bring up some of
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There are bobbin and tatting lace books published purely in Japanese - I
have a beauty, ISBN 4-579-10822-1, brought back from Japan by a friend, and
she has several others. And a Google search of
