I think that the reason that honiton bobbins rarely slip is that the weight of the bobbin combined with the hanging action on the round pillow help to hold the thread onto the neck of the bobbin. I was advised, when I started making Honiton, to use silk as it is a more robust thread for sewings than cotton and I have found that it sits on the bobbin neck better. In the few pieces of miniture bucks point that I've made I also used silk and found that it sat on the midlands bobbins very well. I personally think that it is a combination of thread and bobbin as I have bobbins which shift and move with one thread and not with others.
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: Helen Bell <[email protected]> Subject: [lace] RE: honiton bobbins Honiton is not a lace I tackle very often, but I have enough bobbins to do small projects, and looking at my photos of them, I see that I have some from different makers that have a flatter head and some are spherical (possibly only his bone Honiton bobbins had a spherical head). I haven't made Honiton for some time, but I don't recall having issues with either type of bobbin head and threads not remaining hitched onto the bobbin. <snipped> - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
