The lighter coloured pillow was on the table with the lady winding bobbins so presumably the other worker was her.
The pattern/s though called Bedfordshire lace were made in all the East Midlands counties. The pillow/s and bobbins are typically the types used is South Buckinghamshire. Also in that area it was normal for worker not to use a pillow stand/horse and work like continental lacemakers - with one hand moving the bobbins the other pinning up. Diana in Northamptonshire Sent from Diana's iPad > On 25 May 2015, at 19:33, Kathleen Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, there are two pieces of lace being made, and, presumably, two lace makers. The patterns are similar, but one has tallies and one doesn't, and it is the different pillow covers which give the game away, as well as the fact that one lace maker puts her pins in more tidily than the other! > > Kathleen > In Berkshire, UK > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 25 May 2015, at 19:09, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Oops. The piece with the tallies has the 5 nine-pin motifs per scallop. >> >> >> In a message dated 5/25/2015 2:07:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> Am I the only person who sees two different, although similar, pieces of >> lace being made in this clip. One of them has tallies, and 3 nine-pin edging >> things on each head side scallop and is made on a pillow with a strong >> strip pattern. The other has 5 nine-pin edging things on each scallop and no >> tallies that I can see, and the pillow is light colored. >> Devon >> >> - >> To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: >> unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to >> [email protected]. Photo site: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
