Hi Arachnids Another aspect regarding hand carved bobbins. If they were made purely for financial reasons they may have had little value to others and been thrown out, only bobbins of higher value being kept. How many of us now even pass on hand made clothes and they have no resale value but in a 100 years or so they may be collectors items. Some bobbins may have had sentimental value and so been passed down through families. There may have been many hand carved bobbins, I expect turned ones were very expensive in the late 16th and 17th centuries and even through the 18th and 19th. In the 1980s I had a student who carved all her own bobbins, she enjoyed working with wood, and I had several others who were not sufficiently affluent to buy bobbins when they started their lacemaking and started using bobbins carved from dowel. I doubt if anyone would have been interested in keeping these when the lacemakers retired.
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