Dear Friends,
I was thinking of you all today as I finished another piece of Point
Ground lace. It was quite complex and used about 150 pairs of bobbins.
The thought came to me that there never seems to be enough room for
all those bobbins even though I have a table sized "pillow". Then I
thought with all our hundreds of minds out there, what about giving
them a real challenge.
Try forgetting every tool and implement you have ever used, and come
up with a completely new system for making Bobbin Lace that will make
life a lot easier for all of us who use so many bobbins.
I gave it a shot and began considering the following:-
I wondered whether instead of a pillow we could use something like a
large sheet of the stuff that fridge magnets are made from.
Then instead of the bobbins we know and love, I thought: I need to
reduce the actual width of each bobbin for a start; the volume of
thread rarely takes up much room at all, and I don't think I actually
need a neck on the bobbins as such. I would like it not to roll
around the working area though.
SO....
How about making bobbins from something like coat-hanger wire with a
small knob on the top and an ever so slightly wider flat rectangle on
the bottom. That way they would adhere to the magnetic sheet. If they
adhere well, then the rectangle on the bottom may prove un-necessary.
I wonder whether the magnetic sheet durable enough to take repeated
pin holes though. Or if it's really cheap may be it could be disposable.
I look forward with great interest to your replies to this challenge.
David in Ballarat, AUS
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