In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gina Shillitani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >"standard" size bobbins and another group of "travel" size bobbins. Is >it feasible to mix these two sizes on the same project on the pillow?
You could, I suppose. I tend to spangle my travel bobbins so that they suit the thread, rather than the size of bobbin, so there isn't a lot of difference in weight to cause problems with tension. I also find that David Springett's bobbins are nearer travel bobbin length than standard. (Not that I use the ones I have of his very often, I can't get on with them). That said, the difference in length is likely to drive you bananas, especially if you don't pick your bobbins up at the top of the shank. If it was a case that I couldn't make the piece of lace I really really wanted to make without using the travel bobbins as well as standards, with the alternative of ordering more bobbins being out for one reason or another (probably time or money), then I would probably use both. For me it is unlikely, unless I attempt something like Miss Channer's Mat. Actually, that makes a bit of her book on the history of lace in the Midlands even more amusing. It is on page 3, the last but one paragraph, talking about making lace before the invention of pillows or bobbins. Her suggestion was that you gave your ball of thread to a man, and he held the threads round his fingers whilst you worked with them, and that with two men you could have as many as fifteen to twenty threads in use.... at least you knew exactly where the men in your life were, and what they were up to! I wonder if she was really trying to describe sprang? -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
