On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:56, Leonard Bazar wrote:
The example given was for Salisbury where the children (it seems aged
3 upwards) were to be taught "sewing, knitting, bonelace making,
spinning, pin making, card making, spooling and button making."
I'm not sure what the cards made were for,
Since all the other areas are textile-related (I assume the "pin
making" wasn't forging of the pins from metal, but applying seed-heads
to already sharpened wire), could the "card making" have something to
do with card-weaving technique? Learning how to set up the sequences?
spooling presumably was ancillary to weaving, which interestingly is
not mentioned in its own right - possibly needed a formal
apprenticeship at a more mature age.
Very likely. When my mother went to work at a textile factory at age 14
-- and we're talking 1920ties -- she was not permitted anywhere near
the weaving machines to begin with. Her first job was to supervise 2-3
thread-winding ones ("spoolers"); watching to make sure that they wound
evenly and knotting when the thread broke. As her skills grew, she got
to supervise more machines. It took 2 or 3 years before she was moved
to the "weavers", and even then it was several steps before she was
actually supervising the machines which wove patterns.
Of course, her progress on the "factory ladder" was slowed down
considerably by her frequent stints in jail, "for communism" <g>...
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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