Hi All,
An interesting theme!
I also have an ivory bobbin. One of my father's elder brothers was in the
Army, in India, and brought the bobbin home - I can't verify much about it
now, as he died at the outbreak of war (TB, brought on by service in India,
and playing the trumpet in the
I have a very large collection of old bone lace bobbins but as far as I'm
aware only one old ivory. Certainly your working lacemaker would not have
been able to afford such a luxury.
Give a thought to the missionaries and people such as Miss Channer who could
have acquired locally made ivory
I have one ivory midlands of the 'spinster' type, very small, smooth
without surface decoration or embellishment, and one ivory honiton bobbin.
I've always suspected they were gifts from India during the Raj.
I'm trained in museum conservation so I did learn how to tell ivory and
bone appart. One
Hi all
Interesting one this, a couple of years ago I was given a collection of old
bobbins, I know a fair bit about their provenance. As I gradually began to
unwrap all the different cover cloths (stashed in very old biscuit and sweet
tins) and discover their contents, a couple of hundred wood
Nicky,
How fortunate you are!!
Last year I was able to purchase a Swedish pillow and 200+ bobbins, about 10
spools of Linen thread from a 90+ Swedish woman in our area. In addition she
included the 20+ sample boards she had used in her classes and most of the
patterns for them. I too feel
Patsy wrote:
Yes, there are ivory bobbins out there and there are bone bobbins out
there.
If there are ivory bobbins they wouldn't be common.
David Springett, in Success to the Lace Pillow says:
There can be few lacemakers or bobbin collectors today who have not, at
sometime, been invited to
One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
