On 5/26/06, Barbara Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Last summer when I was demonstrating bobbin lace at the Washington State
Fair, a woman came up to me almost breathless with enthusiasm. "Look," she
said to her friend, "My father used to do that!"
I replied, "Your father made bobbin lace?!?!"
> I've met dozens of people when I've been demonstrating
> bobbin lace whose grannies did tatting "just like you're doing.
Evidently a universal problem:
Last summer when I was demonstrating bobbin lace at the Washington State
Fair, a woman came up to me almost breathless with enthusiasm. "Look,"
>This is an intriguing description for an item on eBay. Firstly does the
>seller really mean "pillow maker"?
I think it should read - Lace maker's pillow.
> And what is that around the roller?
It's a piece of Irish crochet. Well it's lace, and it's on a lace pillow.
Could have been tatting
Thanks Eva. I see someone has told the seller because it is now described as a
"RARE ANTIQUE SPANISH MUNDILLO PILLOW LACE MAKER" and the description has been
altered.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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schrieb:
> This is an intriguing description for an item on
> ebay.
It is a spanish "mundillo", a pillow based on the
french pillows, not used by professional lacemakers,
but by ladies who made lace for their dowry or the
church.
Original retail $350.00
