Wonderful film clip! Thank you Sue for sharing it!.
So after another 20 years, maybe I can make tallies with one hand? Maybe I
could start with just making braids.
http://youtu.be/IwcSaAXtZsc
Beth McCasland
in cloudy cool Seattle, Washington, USA
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Thanks for sharing, Sue!
This is a very well-known Beds pattern; I’ve seen it, or a close cousin, in
several books. I think since it is British Pathe that made the film, it is set
in Britain, so that’s another vote for Beds. The film is probably part of a
whole series of films Pathe made
I am sure it is Bedfordshire, because of the pattern, the pillow ( an East
Midlands bolster) and because of the bobbins which are Bedfordshire thumpers.
Kathleen
In a dull but unfortunately still dry ( for the gardens) Berkshire.
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On 25 May 2015, at 17:02,
At 1.50mins quite clearly Beds, and unspangled Midlands style bobbins too.
Did you notice how much she was doing one handed at 37/38 seconds, more
than just twisting, she was doing the tiny bit of plait between picots with
her left hand so the other hand was free to get the pin for the
Imagine my surprise when I watched the clip and saw the exact edging I am
currently working on. The pattern was published in Geraldine Stott's Bobbin
Lace Manual, page84. It is called Running River. She says, this old
Bedfordshire pattern is meant to represent the meandering River Ouse at
The lighter coloured pillow was on the table with the lady winding bobbins so
presumably the other worker was her.
The pattern/s though called Bedfordshire lace were made in all the East
Midlands counties. The pillow/s and bobbins are typically the types used is
South Buckinghamshire. Also in
Yes, there are two pieces of lace being made, and, presumably, two lace makers.
The patterns are similar, but one has tallies and one doesn't, and it is the
different pillow covers which give the game away, as well as the fact that one
lace maker puts her pins in more tidily than the other!
Oops. The piece with the tallies has the 5 nine-pin motifs per scallop.
In a message dated 5/25/2015 2:07:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dmt11h...@aol.com writes:
Am I the only person who sees two different, although similar, pieces of
lace being made in this clip. One of them has
Am I the only person who sees two different, although similar, pieces of
lace being made in this clip. One of them has tallies, and 3 nine-pin edging
things on each head side scallop and is made on a pillow with a strong
strip pattern. The other has 5 nine-pin edging things on each scallop
Yes, two different patterns on different pillows, but both were using South
Bucks thumper bobbins and both had the footsie on the right, so English,
therefore Bedsrather than Cluny.
At the end it said 40 yards of lace requires for a âshadeâ followed by a
clip of a parasol covered with some
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