Helen, In the past, we have had some beautifully turned Maltese bobbins in bone, but they are rather difficult to come across nowadays. I do have a few antique ones in my collection that were given to me by a friend of my mother's whose mother used to work lace. These are not as big as the wooden ones were, and still are, and I very much suspect that they were used by the more affluent members of the Maltese islands at the time, as well as by those who worked at their lace as a pass time, rather than as a means of income and they were probably used to work the finer laces. I imagine there would be more around if we did not have hard stone floors which we leave uncovered by carpets and rugs in the hot summer months.
Karen in Malta. P.S. I apologise for not trimming the original message, but my iPad is not allowing me to do so. On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 at 11:31 AM Helen Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again. > Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on > display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days > of professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in England > but what about on the continent? If they existed, what type(s) were they? > If they didn't, why not? > > Thanks in advance, Helen in dark British Columbia, Canada > > - > 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/
