Thank you Laurie, and thank you everyone for your responses! Seems I had a
right to be suspicious.
Best,
Elena
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See the piece I wrote on LaceNews a few years ago, at
https://lacenews.net/2011/08/24/music-the-bonelace-weavers-song/
It is Part 1, because I actually interviewed Roy Harris about this, and
will write up my notes in a second article soon.
Laurie
Elena
You are right to question Thomas Wright's assertion. "Bone lace" is just
another name for bobbin lace. "Pillow lace" is another term that is used
sometimes. This is an example of how careful one must be in using any
statements by authors of that era. Many years ago I gave some attention
My apologies for not trimming previous post
Sue M Harvey
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Thank you Brenda for that, I found out about many things concerning the Queens
wardrobe it made fascinating reading also made me very curious to know more
I shall be looking into that .
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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> On 21 Feb 2018, at 21:57, Brenda Paternoster
What Thomas Wright actually wrote is
â "â¦bone-lace it is named, because first made with bone (since wooden)
bobbins.â
In the wardrobe accounts of Queen Elizabethâs day the terms âbone laceâ
(which was made with a fine thread) and âbobbin laceâ (which was made with
a coarser
Elena,
I would take this with a grain of salt. Some of the inventories that
actually mention bone lace are likely to have been metal laces, which were
certainly not "fine" in terms of diameter of the thread.
Kim
In Thomas Wrightâs âRomance of the Lace Pillow,â on page 8 he makes a
