I have lways used the sticks of whatever they are that are used to make brass
rubbings - I believe they are a similar composition to heelballs, bt made as a
stick/crayon shape - much easier to handle!
When I first started to make lace - more years ago tham I care to remember now!
- that was
While soot is very messy, once mixed with the very hard wax to form heel ball
it is stays quite clean.
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:29:16 +
To: dmt11h...@aol.com
CC: jean...@hotmail.co.uk; lace@arachne.com
From: jpartri...@pebble.demon.co.uk
Subject: [lace] Heelball
Blacking would have
According to the on-line dictionary:
A wax colored with lampblack that is used to stain and polish the edges
of
the soles and heels of shoes or to take rubbings of brass or stone
inscriptions.
Which leads to the question, what is lampblack? Fortunately the online
dictionary also defines
