I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again.
Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on
display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days of
professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in
Helen,
In the past, we have had some beautifully turned Maltese bobbins in bone,
but they are rather difficult to come across nowadays. I do have a few
antique ones in my collection that were given to me by a friend of my
mother's whose mother used to work lace. These are not as big as the wooden
I've just sold some of my collection of foreign bobbins, including a bone
Maltese and a bone one from Bayeux. Both were old/antique and slightly smaller
and slimmer than the wooden types.
Diana in a damp, dull Northamptonshire. In spite of that my hardy cyclamen are
putting on a glorious display
There were few, if any bone continental bobbins. I guess thatâs mostly
because even the heavier breeds of cattle around two or three centuries ago
didnât have bones thick enough to form into the bulbous shape that most
continental bobbins have.
Brenda
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