Hello,
Here is your begging cousin from Oz! I have decided that creating a dictionary is so much more than having a good collection of bobbins and the issue of illustrating the various pins is causing me difficulty. I have an historical list of pins used in lace making, I have a few pictures, but not being a lace maker I am clearly at a disadvantage. Here is the list I would like to illustrate and define -though the latter, define- is a little less important. If you can help I would be delighted. Like I say the key thing to pictures is focus.. If a picture is out of focus I cannot do much with it. Most other things I can digitally manipulate. Good light (flash is acceptable if not enough available light), reasonably close but not excessively close, reasonable pixels and I will be delighted. Historical List of pins used by lace makers in the past. * Beaded Head pin * Burr Heads or Sweethearts. * Corking pins * Detachable heads. * Divider pins. * Glass Head pins * Goose Grass seed heads. * Hard head * Hariffe pin * Head Pin * King Pins * Lanking * Limmicks * Long Toms * Needle pin * Prickers * Sealing wax ends * Stabbing * Stacker pins * Strivers * Venetian * Yellow Pins. I have Alexandra Stillwell sitting beside me! (I wish.. I mean her dictionary) and some of the above have slipped through her efficient net!! If a modern pin is available that is appropriately used/named I can get away with that. Many thanks in anticipation. Brian - 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/
