As Nottingham is the home of machine lace in England, it sounds to me like
the lace bobbin is the large spool used on the machines.

>The predominant British reel was called the Nottingham reel, based on the
wooden 
>lace bobbin devised in that ancient lacemaking town. 

Liz Pass
(in Poole)

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