Do you happen to know of a book, catalogue, web site, whatever that would
be a good resource to enable me to ID Continental bobbins please (ideally
antique of course, but they have not changed a lot I would presume.) It is
a huge subject. A bit scary really.
The Best I have is a Dutch book on Lace around the world or something. It
is called "Kant wereldwijd", by Lieve Lams.
People have been very kind and generous in sending me actual continental
bobbins and pictures over the years and I have been very remiss (or too busy
with UK bobbins) to do anything of real value with them. I have felt guilty
about this for a long time
Most of my research time these days is wrapped up in Decorated East Devon
(Honiton) bobbins, another genre that "nothing" has been written about them
except for an excellent book by H.J.Yallop "The History of the Honitons Lace
Industry", but even then he only has a chapter (a good one) on the bobbins.
BTW. His take on the History of the Introduction of Lace into the UK
(possibly Devon especially) is very different from the current generally
accepted view. He argues his case very well and documents it academically..
From Brian and Jean
Cooranbong. Australia
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