I have one of these tools, mine is a piece of Yew as has been turned in the
shape of a lace bobbin but in large scale and then the bobbins has bee split
lengthways down it's middle and has a piece of sticky back baize stuck to
it's back to make it non slip. It has a hole drilled in the middle
Usually I get lost in long explanations as I am a visual type. But Jenny's
explanation is perfectly clear. For Rosaline I learnt another trick using a
support pin. See a Dutch but illustrated explanation on
http://www.lokk.nl/techniek/opzetrosaline.htm
When needing a lot of bobbins use a few
