Thank you Tamara, that is a super scan of the picture from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The bulbous bobbins are very similar to one of the Batavia bobbins. I have a reproduction set made a few years ago by Kleinhout-Kantklossen the dutch suppliers. It is interesting to note that even as early as 1629 when the Batavia was wrecked off western Australia, styles of bobbins varied. The other one is more pear shaped at the bottom.
Jean in Cleveland U.K.
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On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 11:16 PM, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
On Friday, Oct 24, 2003, at 17:01 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vibeke) wrote:
Tamara will you share the photo you recently took of the engraving by Jan
Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius? It should be from the 3rd quarter of the
16th century.
Done; I've uploaded the photo to my web page (oooh, I feel so "computerally cool" <g>). URL in signature. Click on "lacemaker", that'll bring the thumbnail; click on the thumbnail to get the full-sized photo (such as it is ).
I made the big photo very big (bigger than screen size, you have to scroll), because it's not very good; the print was behind glass, and I'm not all that skilled with the digital camera... The print was in the Metropolitan Museum (New York) in August, on loan from the Rijksmuseum (the Hague?) as part of the Goltzius exhibition. I expect it's back home now.
Even with poor quality of the photo, you can still see the pillow and the bobbins fairly clearly. The bobbins resemble the Danish ones -- skinny, and with that bulb at the bottom. Definitely made for he purpose, and a long way from the ones on the Tornehave's book; those look like the originals from which the "Horror kit" took its ideas <g>. Saenredam's dates, BTW, were given as "ca 1565-1607"
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