...Me again!
I'm sure Carolina and Antje, among others, will be able to give more
detailed explanations, but in general, the bolster is used
extensively, although now we are seeing more lace-makers propping a
cookie pillow or a flat block pillow up and working their bobbins
"palms up". This "palms up" method is used throughout Europe (except
for English, French, Dutch and Nordic lace-makers) and can be seen in
Russia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Greece, etc. I'd say that it goes hand in hand with the use
of a cylindrical bolster-type pillow where bobbins do not lie on a
supporting surface.
The bolster itself can be leaned in the direction one needs to work,
and is used indistinctly for continuous lace, mats, scarves, fans,
figurative lace, you name it.
When dealing with large number of bobbins, the pictures show
lace-makers separating the areas of threads with separating pins and
bundling the bobbins with rubber bands. If I recall correctly, small
cloth bags were also used to store idle bobbins, to prevent them from
getting tangled.
The good thing of these Lace Day photo galleries is that it shows the
variety of ways pillows are used, and how lace-makers deal with
different types of lace using the same equipment.
Cheers,
Debora Lustgarten
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