There is an old British Pathé newsreel from 1929, where they filmed an elderly lacemaker at work. Given her evident age, she would have learned her lacemaking in the 1860s or so. The interesting thing for me is that she moves the bobbins with her left hand, and puts in the pins with the other. She does seem to go along at a great rate - however the lace isn’t of very good quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9pmm7Yk78&list=PL-D58_GV_WDdbZq5R_S7MyGRP2BjFLWo-&index=83&t=2s I have seen some videos of lacemakers who do work very quickly, but you can see they spend quite a bit of time rearranging their bobbins after they threw them out of position because they were going so fast. I can go fairly fast at times but I prefer to keep everything in an order that works for me. Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > Anyway, just for fun, I was curious if anyone else had experiences or > advice to speed up lace through shortcuts or other tricks to share with one > another. I certainly find I am much faster working palms up, but most of my > projects are better suited for cookie pillows so I rarely work that way. - 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/
