Delores asked me for the dimensions of the pillow I made:
The pillow I made was as close to the ones I saw in Venice as I could get after coming home and scrounging what I could find.
The diameter of the pillow needs to raise the work to convenient hand level when it is placed on the lap. Thus, mine has a diameter of 6" and is 12" long. The dowel that I had at had happens to be 2" in diameter, although I suspect that the Italian ones might have been closer to closet pole size (1"). Not less than that, though, because it is what you use to free both hands for working and you need space to be comfortable. Its diameter is added to the height of the pillow on your lap. I made my dowel a little longer than the pillow itself, perhaps because that was the length of the piece of wood that I had, or maybe to make it easier to slip out when necessary.
The main thing is to make it personal. It needs to fit you, not some set of rules. The ones the Italian lacemakers were using were all different, probably most of them home made.
Tess (tess1...@aol.com) in Maine USA, where the predicted cold snap is just beginning to arrive: +2 degrees fahrenheit at 10 pm and will get lower overnight.
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