I just now had a look at that bobbin that Brian is talking about. It is
very 'white' colour, - for my thoughts. I have some old bobbins passed down
through the family, and they are mostly a deeper creamy colour.
The lettering on my bobbins is less sharp - this looks more like newer
lettering,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beautiful-Victorian-antique-inscribed-bone-lace-bob
bin-w-romantic-message-/221414498570?pt=UK_Antiques_AntiqueTextiles_EHhash=i
tem338d55210a#ht_359wt_1186
There is a gentleman selling a number of his wife's bobbins collected over the
past 20 years. He indicated the
Another I don't know what it is so I'll call it a lace bobbin on Ebay. Bone,
turned, around three and a half inches long with a hollow centre. Any ideas?
My first though was to wind yardage as it's worked, but that would be straight
across the middle and not dip in.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm
It says it has a hollow centre, so one must be able to open it: a needle
case?
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Another I don't know what it is so I'll call it a lace bobbin on Ebay.
Bone, turned, around three and a half inches long with a hollow centre. Any
ideas?
My first though was to wind
Looks (and sounds) more like a needle case to me.
Karen (currently in London)
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on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?
It says it has a hollow centre, so one must be able to open it: a needle
case?
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Another I don't know what it is so I'll call it a lace bobbin on Ebay.
Bone, turned, around three and a half inches long with a hollow centre. Any
ideas
In my opinion it isn't a bobbin. I saw once a similar thing which was a needle
case.
Ilske
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getting further photographs from the vendor.
Happy lace making,
Joepie, in chilly and grey looking Sussex, UK
From: Jean Nathan
Subject: [lace] Another lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?
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part).
I certainly would not bid on this without finding out more and
getting
further photographs from the vendor.
Happy lace making,
Joepie, in chilly
and grey looking Sussex, UK
From: Jean Nathan
Subject: [lace] Another
lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what
I have a similar piece that is used just to wind finished straight lace on
behind the pillow???
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-or-Antique-Turned-Lace-Bobbin-/40065613651
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West Vancouver, BC
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On 2014-01-30, at 11:56 PM, Jean Nathan wrote:
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turned, around three and a half inches long with a hollow centre. Any ideas?
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It's definitely a knife rest. I remember them from my childhood--those and
food pushers.
Cynthia
On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Adele Shaak wrote:
I think it's a bead. One of those long beads from when they used to cover
doors with beaded curtains (very popular in
The title does say lace bobbin. The word lace is missing from the description.
I thought needle case, but with no ends, needles would fall out.
It's not clear if the grooves each end are a screw threads to take a screw on
cap or just rings.
Rollers for lace don't usually dip in the middle.
On 31/01/2014 13:31, J D Hammett wrote:
The listing does not say 'lace bobbin' but just bobbin.
Are we looking at the same thing? The title says Vintage or Antique
Turned Lace Bobbinand in the description: Welcome to my auction for an
Antique or Vintage Turned Bobbin.The item appears to be
rather steep for a bit of plastic.
Joepie, East Sussex
From: Jean Nathan
Subject: [lace] Another lace bobbin on Ebay - any ideas on what it is?
The title does say lace bobbin. The word lace is missing from the
description
.Used as a knife rest, it would roll.
My
Another I don't know what it is so I'll call it a lace bobbin on Ebay.
Bone,
turned, around three and a half inches long with a hollow centre. Any
ideas?
My first thought was to wind yardage as it's worked, but that would be
straight
across the middle and not dip in.
http://www.ebay.co.uk
My guess is that it is a vintage turned piece-of-something-else.
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the centre; the cord
would be threaded through and knotted.
Adele
West Vancouver, BC
(west coast of Canada)
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from falling out.
If it was intended as a knife/chopstick rest why bother to make it hollow? and
why not have a flat surface somewhere to stop it from rolling around?
Brenda
On 31 Jan 2014, at 07:56, Jean Nathan wrote:
Another I don't know what it is so I'll call it a lace bobbin on Ebay
Or a fan pull for the cord of a ceiling fan. I had a secret pal give me a
wooden one that looks pretty much the same.
Cindy Rusak, in snowy Bracebridge, ON, Canada
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It looks like we're getting to him/her!!
The seller is now saying he/she is having doubts about it being a lace
bobbin, and has given two enquiries to that effect. Hasn't published mine (or
Amanda's, I don't think) and has changed the story from 'selling it for someone
else' to 'bought it at
I took a good look at your 'bobbin' . I think it may have been used in
embrodery, when the stitcher doesn't a picture drawn and the fabric is
really goiing to show any markings. One of my grandma's had one in her
sewing box. She said she used it to stuff some of her embrodery. I'm sure
I think I have got the answer.
It is a bone pen holder. (Like a nib holder on the bottom part into which
you placed the nib)
What do you think?
Jean and Brian from Cooranbong, Australia
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I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace.
This is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a
bobbin... or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being
resourceful?) But it clearly wasn't originally made as a bobbin... so what
From: Brian Lemin
I think I have got the answer.
It is a bone pen holder. (Like a nib holder on the bottom part into
which you placed the nib)
What do you think?
Hello Brian,
Your suggestion sound really credible to me.
Greetings from
Antje González, in Guadalajara, Spain
YES! I think it's that too. I remember our scratch pens we were forced to
use in 4th grade and they looked much like that much simpler of course.
There was a cork doughnut around the spangle end of the bobbin and the
metal nibs fit into the doughnut. I NEVER got the hang of making the darn
pens
Hi Clay and everyone
I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace.
This is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a
bobbin... or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being
resourceful?) But it clearly wasn't originally made as
I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace. This
is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a bobbin...
or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being resourceful?)
But it clearly wasn't originally made as a bobbin... so
Clay, I think it must have once been the handle to something as the
spangle end looks like it went into something. A stick base for a fan or a
doll's parasol? In any case is sure is strange!
Trish in sunny West Virginia
I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace.
How about this one - a 'scrimshaw' lace bobbin carved by a sailor at sea for
his sweetheart! Really???
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2595550223category=439
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Where do sellers get their ideas from?
Jean in Poole
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This particular idea stems from the knowledge that all bone
items were carved by sailors for their sweethearts, and
that all those sailors were on whalers in 1843.
It's the same knowledge from which we get all that lace that is
indisputably victorian. :-
Vasna
in snowy Boulder, Colorado,
Once when demonstrating at a craft fair with some of my beautiful old
Midlands type spangled bobbins on the pillow I was told by a very
knowledgeable gentleman spectator that *did I know that the bobbins were
send home by the soldiers to their sweethearts during the war with messages
in code on
Stiletto would be my best guess also. Lace bobbin it isn't.
Check out the following auction also on Ebay:
Item # 2560687284, or
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2560687284category=39445
I think it's actually on Ebay.com, but was in the UK Ebay when I found it.
Vintage
This certainly isn't a lace bobbin - there's nowhere to wind the thread. I
don't think it's a stilleto because the point's rather short and the taper's
a bit steep. Thought there might be a stanhope (magnifying glass with tiny
pictures of scenes of a town or village) in the blunt end, but the
I think it's a stiletto. Take a look at this stiletto:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3241092100
the point is about the same size and shape.
About the hole in the end - possibly for threading a ribbon through, to
help you keep track of your stiletto? Maybe it went on a
(snip)
A brass pin would lend
strength to the relatively fragile part, like steel rebar in pre-stressed
concrete. If the pin were recessed into the head to produce a smooth
surface, you wouldn't even notice it was there, except that your bobbins
wouldn't break at the head.
Patty
This looks more like a fat stiletto to me rather than an honest
lacemakers' bobbin:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3238172372category=114
or search for item number 3238172372
Jean in Poole
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