On Sep 27, 2008, at 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

In our time, some people are  using
lace pillows made of blocks. That seems a relatively recent adaptation, for lacemakers who found other methods of making continuous laces to be cumbersome.

Actually, both the Flemings and the Swiss had pillows which were block-pillow prototypes, fairly early on. They weren't *all blocks* (9), the way ours are now, but they did have moveable blocks (3) down the centre of the pillow.
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Tamara P Duvall                            http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA     (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)

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