On Jul 21, 2008, at 23:58, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
I love the smooth silky feel of bone bobbins, - but can't afford them
very
often, unfortunately.
Ditto on both -- I adore bone bobbins but can't really aford them. It's
just as well that my favourite bobbin maker (Neil Keats, in Oz), who
makes my "special T-squares", doesn't work with bone; I'd be too broke
to afford thread or pillows :)
Bone bobbins are heavier than wood -- even ebony -- ones, so they
tension better. But they're not as heavy as metal ones, so they don't
break even very fine thread. They don't need varnish or laquer to
finish -- they just get smoother and smoother as they age, without
anything peeling off, getting sticky in humid climate or porous from
excess hand perspiration. The sound of bone bobbins clicking is
surpassed by that of glass ones but, somehow, bone bobbins feel more
"alive" to touch, than glass ones ever do.
So, if I had all of "my d'ruthers", I'd rather have only bone bobbins
to work with. But I'm happy enough with my wood ones, though I --
definitely -- have preferences as to which woods I like better than
others.
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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