Dear Arachnids I have made Bucks Point with 2/180s Honiton thread and a single strand of stranded embroidery thread for the gimp. For this I used my smallest Midlands bobbins with small spangles and had no broken threads. Breakages occur when threads are pulled up or snagged, not by bobbins that are the correct weight for them. The South Bucks bobbins do not have spangles and lacemakers who have learned their lacemaking using them often prefer them. You do not have to have spangles when working Bucks Point, just use what you are comfortable with and have a suitable weight for tensioning the ground.
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