On Sun, 27 May 2007, Jane Partridge wrote:
"For me it is unlikely, unless I attempt something like Miss Channer's
Mat. Actually, that makes a bit of her book on the history of lace in
the Midlands even more amusing. It is on page 3, the last but one
paragraph, talking about making lace before the invention of pillows or
bobbins. Her suggestion was that you gave your ball of thread to a man,
and he held the threads round his fingers whilst you worked with them,
and that with two men you could have as many as fifteen to twenty
threads in use.... at least you knew exactly where the men in your life
were, and what they were up to! I wonder if she was really trying to
describe sprang?"
No, its not Sprang - I think that was always made on a frame.
What she describes is Fingerloop Braiding. See the following websites:
http://fingerloop.org/
http://www.takvbowes.co.uk
and for general information on medieval braiding:
http://www.et-tu.com/soper/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Hope these are of interest.
Bridget Marrow, still cold and damp in Watford, England, but planning to get
my pillow out this afternoon.
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