Hi Alice, Actually, when I took Venetian needlelace with Irma Osterman, she suggested we use a Dritz tailor's ham to attach the pattern to and as a working surface. Personally, my tastes run to beautiful and elaborate equipment, and it seemed a little common place to me. But it did work and I didn't have to make a needlelace pillow, which was fine with me. Whether this use actually converted a Dritz pressing ham to a lace pillow, I don't know. It certainly didn't convert it to a bobbin lace pillow, though. Perhaps someone should notify Dritz that it is a multi-use ham and they could arrange an advertising campaign around that idea. Devon
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