Thank you, Brenda, and the other kind people who helped to answer my question.
I hadn't thought about the bulbous nature of the continentals. It is
interesting to read though that there were some bone continentals.
I wonder whether it was the fact that bone was used for English bobbins that
I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again.
Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on
display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days of
professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in
Helen,
In the past, we have had some beautifully turned Maltese bobbins in bone,
but they are rather difficult to come across nowadays. I do have a few
antique ones in my collection that were given to me by a friend of my
mother's whose mother used to work lace. These are not as big as the wooden
I've just sold some of my collection of foreign bobbins, including a bone
Maltese and a bone one from Bayeux. Both were old/antique and slightly smaller
and slimmer than the wooden types.
Diana in a damp, dull Northamptonshire. In spite of that my hardy cyclamen are
putting on a glorious display
There were few, if any bone continental bobbins. I guess thatâs mostly
because even the heavier breeds of cattle around two or three centuries ago
didnât have bones thick enough to form into the bulbous shape that most
continental bobbins have.
Brenda
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> I cannot make lace at the moment and
Really, someone should speak to the Springetts to establish the accuracy of
the story, since my memory is not always top notch. But, as I recall, there
was some general discussion going on about how David had developed his bone
bobbin turninng abilities, experimenting with boiling cow bones,
I've never heard that story! Can you share it with us (just in case any of us
fel tempted to try our hand at making giraffe-bone bobbins...)
Beth
in cold (but at least it's not raining this morning) Cheshire, NW England
Devon wrote:
I may even have
shared the story about the time the
I have had a pair of cathedral bone bobbins for about 8 or 9 years
now. I had them in damp northern Illinois for several years and now
for over 5 years in the Phoenix desert and they have not warped and
work just fine. I don't think I have dropped them though.
One of the members of the
During 45 years of lacemkaing, sometimes with as many as 450 bobbins on the
pillow and many of them bone I have only broken one and I successfully
repaired this and a broken one I was given using superglue. I enjoy using both
wooden and bone bobbins. We all have our individual preferences. Enjoy
Two or three weeks ago I posted about some bone bobbins that an elderly
lacemaker had asked me to sell for her. I had a few interested e-mails
about them, but first I had to get pics, then I was ill, and for the last
week I've had major computer woes :( As a consequence of the computer
problems,
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