I would expect that the card making is either as Tamara has said or may well be to do with the large combs used to 'card' wool before it was spun which is where it was combed back and forth to make the threads in the wool head in the same direction. Blast from the past along with a reply about the past eh? Yes I'm still alive and great to hear you all again.
Regards Liz Beecher -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 6.29AM Subject: [lace] Re: lace in 16th century Salisbury 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>... -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
