Patsy wrote:
Yes, there are ivory bobbins out there and there are bone bobbins out
there.
If there are ivory bobbins they wouldn't be common.
David Springett, in Success to the Lace Pillow says:
There can be few lacemakers or bobbin collectors today who have not, at
sometime, been invited to
The crux of the matter here is that the bobbins in question are Victorian
Midlands bobbins, made by probably low-income, village bobbin makers. It is
known that quite a few of these people probably made the bulk of their income
from
their bobbin and their skill is absolutely undeniable. If they
Reading the quotation of David Springett's comment
that ivory may have been used for ladies' bobbins
reminds me of a favourite remark by the Miss Tebbs in
their The Art of Bobbin Lace of 1907 - an excellent
instruction book, if not quite in comprehensible
English all the time. ... the bobbins
I think that what has to be considered about these is that lacemaking
was 'work' , a trade. Possibly some ladies indulged themselves in the
craft, but by and large it was a working class occupation and therefore
you bought the cheapest bobbins available. Even husbands etc could not
afford
Hello Noelene,
A teacher of mine who knew some ladies from Wologda exolained it to me.
They have there very long and big rolls bigger then those from
Erzgebirge. And on those big lace-pieces are two or more lacers working
at the same time.
Hope this helps.
Greetings
Ilske
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One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
One possibility that has not yet been mentioned is that England had a
number of its men in the Indian subcontinent at some point (the Raj). It
is not inconcevable that some of these men had ivory and exotic wood
bobbins made for gifts to sweethearts and family back in England.
Certainly, a lot of
Lucie wrote:
If Victorian men were producing bodkins, needle cases and other needle
work implements in whatever material was at hand, could ivory not also be
a possibility?
Needlework - the types that use a needle - were done by ladies of
middle/high class as part of their education. In the
That's how I saw it done in Poland too, except that the bolster pillows
were even bigger.
Weronika
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:35:28PM +0200, Pene Piip wrote:
Noelene, here is the web-site of a Russian lacemaker who lives in Narva,
Estonia. She uses a big bolster pillow handles the bobbins
This thisle bookmark is the piece of lace that got the fire
burning in me to learn how to do bobbinlace. I have had Jean Leader's patterns
for
quite some time now. I think the time for me to finally do it is now.
The reason I am writing to the lace list is because...I remember along
I replied to this but I think it went direct to
celticdreamweave, (sorry, I'm still learning the
system). I would be interested in seeing the thistle
bookmark made up in white or colours. It may even
convert me to bobbinlace.
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Rochelle Sutherland
Lachlan (7yrs), Duncan (6yrs) and Iain (5yrs)
Jenny B asked about cleaning pins. Has anyone tried using an ultrasonic
cleaner for this? My DD picked one up at Radio Shack (no affiliation) over
the holidays, and it seems to have done a good job on some jewelry and
silverware. Much less intrusive than jewelry cleaners although leaves a
It isn't the 'method' of cleaning that does the job, so much as the 'cleaning
agent' that does the trick, especially with brass pins. Most of the 'cleaning
agents' mentioned are acidic, that is what makes the brass bright.
Lorri (the metalsmith)
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