While the list is quiet, I'd like to take the opportunity to put forward a
theory. It's been floating about at the back of my mind for quite a long
time, so I've no references to sources, only distant memories that recently
came together in a new pattern.
Probably since shortly after the time I
When I was doing lace City and Guilds in 1987 (unfinished at that time as it
was interupted by a fairly major car accident) one of my fellow students did
some research on the use of fish bones and thorns as pin substitutes. I am
fairly sure that her conclusions were that mostly they were not
At 08:46 AM 10/9/04 +0100, Linda Walton wrote:
Probably since shortly after the time I started making lace, I have heard
that early lacemakers used fishbones for pins. But I can't imagine any of
those little rib-type bones being strong enough to be pushed into a straw
pillow, nor taking the
