I'm sure David will correct us if necessary, but I think David is looking
for a way to store bobbins in a project which are not in use in a way that
they are safely stowed, but can be retrieved easily. And a way to fit more
bobbins in the 'sweet spot' on the pillow, the area where the work is
actually being done. Magnetism is certainly a possibility. And, Devon, I
looked at your Valenciennes bobbins, and they are too wide. I think the
consensus is that narrow is better when lots of bobbins are needed. These
bobbins are not. But going too narrow, as in a thin Honiton when there are
dozens of bobbins on the pillow might be too much. I like the small space
between bobbins made by the slight bulge of the thin bulb at the bottom of
the bobbin.
Looking at Cole's progress pictures of her stupendous piece of Brugge, the
one picture is telling. The Christina pillow is not a perfect answer. You
can't turn the outside piece very far before you're needing to increase the
length of the thread on one outside section. On the other hand, the concept
of the upper shelf can easily be adapted to a block pillow, squeezing the
supports into the interstices between the blocks. but simply grouping the
bundles together the way Clay did might help a bit. Or using the pins to
stack groups of bobbins on the side might help.
Has anyone made any personal progress in solving this problem, or is bobbin
management still a work in progress?
Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, toward the end of a lovely day. But
we're expecting a severe thunderstorm this evening that's on the weather
maps.
Devon wrote:
I realize that David is really looking for a metal and magnetic answer to
the space/bobbin continuum puzzle and I wish had something clever to offer
in the way of an electro-magnetic force field that holds the bobbins in
some kind of holographic suspension, but taking a leaf from Lyn's
observations that people have grappled with this problem in the past, I am
posting to
the Ning site a picture of some bobbins that I was given. They claim to be
Valenciennes bobbins and they certainly look as though they have been
attached to the card they are on for a long time, so perhaps they are
actually
quite old and date to the era of the fantastically complicated straight
laces.
Here is the link. You don't have to join the Ning site to read it. (The
Ning site is free, but requires you to go through a little certification
procedure just to keep out non-lace people, so it is no big deal to join
it.)
_http://laceioli.ning.com/group/tools-and-equipment_
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