Last one for the lace - I hope (still tons of private, and the "chaff"
can wait <g>)...
On Jun 13, 2005, at 14:09, Jenny Barron wrote:
how about a bobbin carousel - of course you'd have to get more bobbins
to fill it<g>
http://www.briangoodwin.co.uk/page2.html
Should work excellently well for Helen who's in UK but, for the *US
Arachneans* in the same spot, Richard Worthen (one of the vendors
scheduled to appear at the Denver IOLI Convention) makes those also,
and very nice they are, too.
I wanted a display case for the "thank you bobbins" - I get a bobbin
for each pattern published in Lace and the IOLI Bulletin, and they're
all Midlands, which I do not use for work - so I went to look at what
he had to offer at the CRLG Lace Day in Baltimore, early in April. Took
some of the bobbins I wanted to display with me, to check how they'd
fit. They didn't (too many crammed in), so I had him make me a carousel
with fewer slots, and within a week or so, I got the case - dark wood
as specified, to show the light-coloured bobbins to the best advantage.
I hung in all the bobbins and have one slot left... Since that's a
no-brainer to fill, with my obligations to IOLI (3times a year), I'll
need a new one soon :) But, the next one will be trimmed by 1/4, not
1/2; the bobbins in the current one, evn with the spangles, have more
room than they ned, and the price is is the same. About the same, as a
matter of fact, as if one were to translate GBP to the USD - $45 plus
shipping (and shipping is still less in US <g>)
And, Margot Walker (in Canada) wrote:
You could wind them as a pair and hang them on one of the display
racks/plaques that spoon collectors use.
Daahlinks... US does a whole lot of things wrong, but, when we do a
thing right, we do it *right* <g> There's a turner - "Abe's Bobbins" I
think they're called, and I'm sorry not to see them listed for the
Denver Convention - who makes a "rack/plaque" to beat all those
designed for spoon collectors *hollow*, being designed for bobbin
lacemakers :)
I got one of them (and some other BL paraphernalia - the man's work is
as smooth as that of any European or Ozzie) in Ithaca last autumn. It's
a replica of a Midland bobbin - 12.5"(32cm) long, and elegantly gentle
(3/4" or 2cm) at the widest diameter - with many and many carvings/dips
along the way... And you can hang a pair of bobbins - securely - in
every dip. You can also hang a pair or two - with the help of a piece
of the "Scotch tape" over the thread joiningthe pair - in between the
dips, over the bumps...
I couldn't resist it - last autumn, in Ithaca - any more than I could
resist several bobbin holders (the tongue-depressor kind, just nicer)
and a couple of pin-holding bowls... True; I do not keep my pins on the
pillow, so even *one bowl* was an extravagance... :) But, as I explain
all lace-related extravagances to DH (he could not understand the
purchase of "THE Toustou" roller <g>): "it's a work of art... You
wouldn't understand... Unless, of course, you can explain to me why you
spend *as much or more* on a #330/500 print of "artist X", who's as
unknown to me as Toustou is to you... We get along, but the road
ain't without its bumps <g>
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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