Hello Brian, Alex and everyone
I believe hand carved/decorated bobbins were produced more for sentimental
reasons, often made or decorated by, and for, a loved one and thus were
possibly kept safe when collections were disposed of.
In the last few years I have tried to concentrate on
Well, very clever of you Malvary! I fortunately found a Swedish Store called
Engelbritson’s that stocked lace books and lace making supplies (including
bobbins) They had a lot of birch starter bobbins for English lace. A tad
bulkier than the good ones but cheap! Rarely use them but have them
Hi Arachnids
Another aspect regarding hand carved bobbins. If they were made purely for
financial reasons they may have had little value to others and been thrown
out, only bobbins of higher value being kept. How many of us now even pass on
hand made clothes and they have no resale value but in a
I still have (and use occasionally) some bobbins that I carved from dowel
when I first started. I had bought 6 pairs of bobbins while I was in
England on holiday and then when I came home to Canada and started on lesson
2 or 3 in the book I was using the instruction was 'wind 10 pairs of
I have started to write the promised article and doing reasonable well. I
have omitted the largest group of hand carved/decorated bobbins as they are a
genre to themselves, namely the East Devon/Downton bobbins... also I am
sticking to English antique. The Continental hand carved bobbins are very
Yes, categories. Also, maybe the categories relate to other forms of folk
art such as embroidery and carving on other wood pieces such as spindles,
door frames, knitting sheaths, ... love tokens ... with regional or
occupational speceficities such as anchors, fishes, fishnets, flowers,
etc.
Just
