Hello all,
First the important thing. Did you happen to see the flattering publicity I got with the discovery of Englands oldest dated lace bobbin? 1662.even before the Great Fire of London! It has really helped with the East Devon/Downton project so I am building on it by trying to right a big difference in the information available on Midland bobbins as opposed to Honiton bobbins. Did you know there is no collection of inscriptions/mottoes on Honiton bobbins? Wright has pages of them for East Midland bobbins, but Hontions, pretty well ZERO anywhere. I wonder IF you happen to have any Honiton (Downton) inscribed bobbins, would you be good enough to write them down and send them to me, please? IF accompanied by even a phone snap of the bobbin that will raise a BIG smile to my face. Re the lace town map. I think I am going to give up on that as the villages of old were so "close" to each other, a map becomes a blur of names. I will see if there is another way around this. You would need to be getting on in years, but I am writing a "lace" biography of Marian Powys, have any of you got any personal memories of her that you are willing to share, please? Mind you she made her lace mark mostly in America. What a miserable mate I am, all I ever ask you to do is "work" for me!!! Thanks to all of you. Brian _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . SPAMfighter has removed 125 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC? <http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen> Try a free scan! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
