like a nice pattern to work for demo'ing.
BTW, where did you get the little glass angel that you put the lace skirt
on? I
have not seen those before. I wonder if anyone carries them in the US.
Janice
Subject: [lace] Roller pillow and lace
MY DH has taken a photo of the roller pillow (just as I
Lorelei Halley lhal...@bytemeusa.com wrote:
I have seen many Maltese silk pieces with turned corners, but these also would
be mid 19th century or just a little earlier, and I have no idea what shape of
pillow was used on Malta.
What today in Malta/Gozo is called a traditional pillow looks
in the US.
Janice
Subject: [lace] Roller pillow and lace
MY DH has taken a photo of the roller pillow (just as I was putting it to bed
the other evening, so I have uploaded it onto the webshots site in the
hurwitzend album. He was the other side of the pillow, so has the finished
lace
Lyn
The issue of turning corners only arose in the mid to late 19th century.
Turned corners did not exist earlier. Instead only flat edgings or insertions
were made, and these were folded or gathered to make hankie edgings or
collars. If you look at the portrait paintings in Levey, for instance,
I made myself a travel pillow of the handbag type Sue has, but mine had a
compartment at each end of the roller - one for a pin cushion and the other
for tools. It also had a platform about half an inch deep in front and
behind the roller for sticking pins into hold a tape running over the top
Thank you all for your comments, it would appear that you all use some sort of
soft sausage shape which is now so obvious:-) I will play with the general
idea and see what works best inside the bag open and closed and to make sure
future lace rolls off the pillow in good condition for use and
Hi Sue
I started lacemaking before the rollers were invented. I place a large
handkerchief or strip of white fabric under the lace and pin to the pillow
either side of the pricking immediately behind the pins and fold it
outlengthwise over the lace. I then roll it up and secure the roll with a
Months ago we bought me a travel roller pillow but it has taken me until now
to get it into use. I have a roller with the block pillow but could not get
the hang of working with it, so was a little cautious with this one, but after
reading all your info last time I asked I have tried out various
Hi Bev, There is a little pocket but it is sideways on and wouldn't hold the
lace. Maybe if I where to wrap a clean hanky around it until it gets longer
but then feel it should be rolled around something so it doesn't have
creases in.
I went to bed so excited and pleased with myself, LOL.
Sue
Dear Bev,
I have made two sausages, between 1 and 11/2 (stuffed with wool wadding
left over from quilting projects). The larger one I used to make a length of
41/2 torchon, the smaller one I used on my small round pillow, sure it could
be used with my travel pillow. The ends of the sausage are
Hello Sue
Yay, well done on bringing the roller pillow up to speed!
I've seen several roller pillows with work in progress, the finished
lace going into a little drawstring bag behind the roller. One
lacemaker made one from fabric that matched her cover cloth, but the
others used translucent
You could make a temporary 'roller' from a piece of fabric, something
that would act as a core but would be more flexible than a wooden
cylinder.
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Sue hurwitz...@btinternet.com wrote:
Hi Bev, There is a little pocket but it is sideways on and wouldn't hold the
Hi Sue, Bev, Mary Carey -
I agree with Mary Carey... the little sausage is easy enough to
make. I made one with a short length of plastic drinking straw as a
core to give it stability, and wrapped a bit of quilting batting (low
loft) around it. Covered it with a bit of cotton that matched
If you decide to use this kind of padding, shop carefully! Some felt
padding these days has rough bits in it that would definitely stop a
pin. Another no-no would be the non-slip coating they sometimes spray
on the back. If you're going to use padding, be sure it's clean
fibers/felt, with
We fairly recently bought a Travel pillow (like a little shopping bag) with a
roller pillow inside.As I am new to roller pillows I have a small and
simple pattern neading about 8 pairs of bobbins and which doesn't go all the
way around the roller to put onto it to get used to the change before
Sue T asked I have read in the past of the various ways that people help
preserve the surface of a roller pillow...
I think that the best thing to cover your roller with is wool fabric (old
blanket or clothes cut into strips and wound as tightly as possible round
the styrofoam centre. One
There are ways to make long-lasting rollers, and ways that are shorter lived.
The best rollers, and long lasting, are made from wool fabric, rolled around a
supporting dowel. They need to be just deeper than the length of pins to be
used. Thick sections of cotton fabric would be hard to pin
Sue
The first thing to consider about recovering your roller is: how does it fit
into the well hole in your pillow? If you roller sits in a well you won't be
able to add more padding to the roller and still have it fit in the hole.
But if that isn't a problem (if the well is considerably larger
I was given two used Swedish pillows, where the rollers were too soft to
hold the pins. I use a single layer of a foam sheet, cut to size and pinned
to fit.
http://www.michaels.com/Creatology%E2%84%A2-Foam-Sheets/gc1328,default,pd.html?start=16cgid=products-generalcrafts-foam
I would guess
Hi Everybody:
I have found that woven cotton fabric many layers thick is
actually quite resistant to pins. They won't go in far enough to be stable
and you will bend a lot of them. I have found that 100% woven wool fabric
takes pins very well
I want to add that you should use
I just recently completed a roller pillow. I used a dowel rod for the
center then wrapped 100% wool felt strips around the dowel until it was the
size I wanted. The 100% wool felt is more expensive than that mixed with
polyester but I think the 100% works better. I found the wool on sale and
Be careful of cotton batting!
I tried to make a pin cushion of several layers of a cotton mattress
pad, and pins would not go through it! It was solid. Maybe this was
because it was old and compacted? I don't know. I went for poly instead.
Lauren
On 8/15/2011 4:22 PM, Jane Partridge wrote:
The rollers I've made for pillows used the fibrous-type carpet padding. That's
getting harder to find, more and more carpet stores sell only the foam rubber
type. The short ends should be cut at an angle (taper the material) so that
there are no ridges where the padding starts and stops. The
Hi Dona -
When I (or I should say, my DH) built my first roller pillow, we used
Pamela Nottingham's description of constructing a French roller pillow
as our guide, but scaled it up to make a larger pillow, very similar to
the size of Toustou's large roller pillow. The way we secured the
Good evening. The list has been very quiet the last few days so after a
conversation with my husband this evening discussing roller pillows, I
thought I'd ask the list for input. I have a roller pillow that I made 11
years or so ago using Doris Southard's pattern. It's been a nice pillow to
Hi everyone,
A roller pillow just appeared on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=19158item=8124429573
rd=1
I don't think I really want one, but other people might be interested.
Weronika
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Weronika Patena
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
I make this comment simply to clarify language/terminology differences between
the various countries: This is what the English call a bolster pillow. A
roller pillow usually has a much smaller roller inserted in some sort of a flat
surface, such as round (or cookie) pillow, or part thereof.
This one is actually inserted in a big square surface - you can see it on the
other pictures. The seller just picked a bad picture to display on the item
list, since this picture doesn't show all of the pillow, but is a close-up or
the small roller.
A bolster pillow is just a big cylindrical one
While visiting my Physical therapist a couple weeks ago, I noticed they
have ethafoam cylinders! Of course, I had to squeeze one! It felt denser
than the swim noodles. The Therapist gave me a copy of the catalog.
The cylinders aren't so very pricey but the shipping is. They come in 3, 4
and 6
And for more information on Pillows including Rollers check here:
http://lace.lacefairy.com/PillowsBobbins/BobbinPillows.html
Lori the Lacefairy
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Hello all,
I have a student wanting to buy a roller pillow. Any suggestions on where
to go?
Thank you,
Cherre
Galena, MO
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Cherre Bybee wrote -
I have a student wanting to buy a roller pillow. Any suggestions on where
to go?
Hi Cherre,
Obviously it depends on how much she would like to spend on it but there are
choices.
Snowgoose sells a foam bases unit called the One and Only that can convert
from cookie to
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