Dear All, My efforts to study and report on the East Devon and Downton bobbins continue, to try and give them the reputation they deserve, equivalent (but different) to the East midland bobbins.
1. Up until now consider I have been in the âcollection phaseâ i.e. getting enough bobbin pictures to be representative enough to be able to make some reasonable decisions about. Broadly this continuous but I have a special need for pictures of decorated Downton bobbins. (Convid 19 has slowed down progress on this group) 2. I think you will know I âunearthedâ the oldest dated bobbin (1662) and found in my collection! a railway engine on a bobbin. (I have had that bobbin for perhaps a years or so!! â¹) 3. I have written but not yet put on webdocs and article on the Virtue bobbins 4. I have submitted a second article to webdocs on initial attempts to ID decorators of East Devon Bobbins. There are indications that we will be able to ID say half dozen decorators, but frankly, I am wondering if it will be worthwhile as the decorations of east Devon bobbins is complex, for the most part, you cannot just call them to say, a Mother and Babe like we do with the East midland bobbins. It just does not work like that. So I/we will have to work through that and see what comes of it. 5. I have developed an initial list of bobbin genres (Associated with but separate to Yallops genres.) I have attached a list below, which is open to suggestions and changes. 6. I have published a couple of articles in the OIDFA IOLI journals. Mostly doing work of trying to find the three very special bobbins belonging to Marian Powys. BTW it looks as if my lace bio article on Marian Powys is going to be published by the Powys Journal this year. 7. I am wondering how this work can eventually be published. I do not think it will result in another Dictionary like the East Midlands bobbins ( www.brianlemin.com <http://www.brianlemin.com> ) but perhaps It will be an âA GUIDEâ to collecting East Devon and Downton bobbins.?? Who knows? Here is my list of Genres as it currently stands. Genre List 1. Accessories 2. Advertisements 3. Anchors 4. Aquafortis 5. Artistic 6. Beer 7. Birds 8. Black and red 9. Bone 10. Branscombe 11. Bricks 12. Circumferential lines 13. Colour 14. Types of Bobbins 15. Ebonized 16. Fancy turned 17. Fish 18. Flora and foliage 19. Flowers 20. Full shank 21. Gimp _ Trolley 22. Green dye 23. Hand Carved 24. Hearts 25. Inscribed 26. Intricate 27. Light sprigs 28. Love 29. Malmsbury 30. Maltese cross 31. Maritime 32. Medallion 33. Mermaid 34. Misc. 35. Names 36. Naming charts 37. Naive 38. Non carved 39. Oldest 40. Oldest dated 41. On pillow 42. Pale wood 43. Plain 44. Primitive crude 45. Religious 46. Sample of designs 47. Shells 48. Ships resources 49. Ships 50. Ships drawn 51. Sketched bobbins 52. Social objects 53. South bucks 54. Spiral inscribed 55. Sprigs 56. Steam 57. Straight lines 58. Sun 59. Sun Stars 60. Tails 61. Top half 62. Treen 63. Trees 64. Triangles 65. Trolly _ Gimp 66. Unusual 67. Virtues 68. Worn Thanks for all your help and support Brian - 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/
