I'd love to know just *how* some of these sellers arrive at their identifications!!
These items are not lace bodkins, or any other sort of bodkins for that matter!! Kenrick, the manufacturer was/(is??) an English company who manufactured irons in the days of flat irons (solid irons heated on the stove in the days before electricity). These items are goffering irons - specially shaped to help smooth the complex ruffs and frills which were part of clothing in days gone by. The tube was heated by the insertion of a shaped rod, and the material was then pulled tightly over the hot tube, one pleat at a time. I've got quite a collection of small "lace" irons (little flat irons made especially for ironing lace), including a couple of beauties from Kenrick, and I'd love to have a goffering iron to add to the collection!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) Jean Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I always thought a bodkin was a blunt "needle" for threading ribbon or elastic, but the seller describes these as lace bodkins "that would have been used in a haberdashery department, or a high class milliners." Can anyone explain to me please. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2552516590&category=358 or search for item number 2552516590 Jean in Poole http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
