[lace] Bone bobbins

[Helen Clarke]

I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again. 
Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on 
display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days of 
professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in England but 
what about on the continent? If they existed, what type(s) were they? If they 
didn't, why not?

Thanks in advance, Helen in dark British Columbia, Canada

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Re: [lace] Bone bobbins

[Karen ZM]

Helen,

In the past, we have had some beautifully turned Maltese bobbins in bone,
but they are rather difficult to come across nowadays. I do have a few
antique ones in my collection that were given to me by a friend of my
mother's whose mother used to work lace. These are not as big as the wooden
ones were, and still are, and I very much suspect that they were used by
the more affluent members of the Maltese islands at the time, as well as by
those who worked at their lace as a pass time, rather than as a means of
income and they were probably used to work the finer laces.
I imagine there would be more around if we did not have hard stone floors
which we leave uncovered by carpets and rugs in the hot summer months.

Karen in Malta.

P.S. I apologise for not trimming the original message, but my iPad is not
allowing me to do so.

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 at 11:31 AM Helen Clarke  wrote:

> I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again.
> Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on
> display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days
> of professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in England
> but what about on the continent? If they existed, what type(s) were they?
> If they didn't, why not?
>
> Thanks in advance, Helen in dark British Columbia, Canada
>
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Re: [lace] Bone bobbins

[Diana Smith]

I've just sold some of my collection of foreign bobbins, including a bone
Maltese and a bone one from Bayeux. Both were old/antique and slightly smaller
and slimmer than the wooden types.

Diana in a damp, dull Northamptonshire. In spite of that my hardy cyclamen are
putting on a glorious display in the garden.

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> On 22 Sep 2015, at 10:24, Helen Clarke  wrote:
>
> I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again.
Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on
display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days of
professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in England but
what about on the continent? If they existed, what type(s) were they? If they
didn't, why not?
>
> Thanks in advance, Helen in dark British Columbia, Canada
>
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Re: [lace] Bone bobbins

[Brenda Paternoster]

There were few, if any bone continental bobbins.  I guess that’s mostly
because even the heavier breeds of cattle around two or three centuries ago
didn’t have bones thick enough to form into the bulbous shape that most
continental bobbins have.

Brenda
>
> I cannot make lace at the moment and don't know whether I ever will again.
Therefore I've been thinking that I should put some of my best bobbins on
display to admire. This brought me to wonder about bobbins during the days of
professional lacemakers. I know that there were bone bobbins in England but
what about on the continent? If they existed, what type(s) were they? If they
didn't, why not?
>
>

Brenda in Allhallows
paternos...@appleshack.com
www.brendapaternoster.co.uk

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