I use hooked bobbins for certain things, and a while ago one of our
suppliers changed his from totally wooden to wooden handles with about
1/8" thick wire for the neck and hook. Winding them to use once has put
me off using them altogether, it was an absolute pain; thankfully he has
gone back to just using wood.
One of the things that came up in conversation with my fellow
demonstrators at Cardiff yesterday was the possible need for a bobbin,
or means of holding thread, that could be used by lacemakers whose hands
are affected by arthritis, and thin bobbins would definitely be out
there!
Part of the reason why the head and body of the bobbin are wider than
the neck is so that the wound thread doesn't (or shouldn't) come into
contact with your hands or the pillow - this is to keep it clean, so
dispensing with those aspects of the bobbin might mean the lace would
have to be washed as soon as it is made!
I would imagine the magnetic sheet would be quite hard to push pins
into, and being magnetic, if you use steel pins, you would possibly have
problems with the pins becoming magnetised and either attracting or
repelling each other - could make for some interesting lace "grids",
though!
In message <[email protected]>, David C
COLLYER <[email protected]> writes
I wondered whether instead of a pillow we could use something like a
large sheet of the stuff that fridge magnets are made from.
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.
--
Jane Partridge
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