Hi Arachnids (of the kindest types!)
Thank you for all your help, references and "especially" for being reminded
that I wrote an article on Arizona Webdocs about Pins and Lace Making. (
https://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs.html.. You will need to
scroll down quite way to get to
Dear Brian
There are a couple of pictures in Gertrude Whiting's old time tools and toys of
needlework (Dover 1971) the Venetian ones are glass headed some with spherical
heads and others shaped as animals and birds p143
On page 145 are East Midlands pins described as King pins, Bugles or
An article titled Notes on the history of the common pin by John Nolin
("researcher on the many facets of 18th century life")won a prize for best
article in an IOLI bulletin dated July 1984. Noted: an invention of a
pin-making device by an American 1824. T^his article was not specifically about
We at Biggins used to make and sell strivers. Short pins with seed beads
covering most of the body. I was told by a very old lacemaker who,is no longer
with us, that when lace was being made by families that was often ordered it
was to check on and speed up the lacemaker who was slacking!
After sending my last email I took to my books in desperation... I share
this with you all.
The divider pin in the cited plate is one similar to which a member has sent
me an illustration of. Very nice example. Thanks
42. Pins.
The early brass pins made in England had a
globular head
I have illustrations for:
Seed headed
Glass headed
Detachable head
Medium pins
Small Pins
Sealing wax head
Bone Pins
Striver
Thorn pins
Corking pins
Long Tom pins
Very long pins
Divider pins
Seed head
So this is the list that is left:
* Burr Heads or Sweethearts. (?seed
