Dear Diana and Vicky,, That is a good suggestion. I've noticed another on eBay this week. With the Hugenot connection to lace I tend to forget about the minority Catholics in the area.
With best wishes Louise > On 1 Jul 2016, at 15:09, Diana Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder if the porthole beads your referring to are rosary beads. Some can > be made from bone, others from wood, and have probably been reused from > broken rosary's. > > Perhaps Brian has pictures in his research, if not I can send some to him. > > Diana > > > Sent from Diana's iPad > > 'Very little is needed to make a happy life.' > >> On 1 Jul 2016, at 14:37, Vickie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:37:44 +0100 >> From: Louise <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [lace] Re bead illustrations. >> >> ........... but there were a couple of oddities one a coarse ceramic and >> another organic with odd porthole decoration. I don't know if it is carved >> wood or seed of some sort. >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I have several of the same "porthole" type bead spangles in my antique >> bobbin collection and would love to hear about what they are/history. >> Looking >> forward to learning from the wealth of information found here as always. >> >> Thanks you to Louise for taking the time to post pictures of her spangles >> for us to see. >> >> - >> 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/
