Hi Friends,
Still asking myself questions as to when spangling began!
I decided that the OED might have the answers.
Well no, there does not seem to have any special reference to spangling
(and all the other words) a bobbin. It does refer to decorating an object.
I also looked up Gingle, Jingle and any other words that came to mind
related to decorating a bobbin, but nothing turned up.
I need to say that my interest in the OED was sparked by reading the
book that has a title similar to The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip
Williams. Its a great book and entertaining, but its key message is
that "women's words" were not collected. Not that they would not
collect them but the process of adding a word was (briefly and in
general) a person would write to the authors with an example of the word
, the date and the context of its use. It would then be put on a piece
of paper and filed when they got to that letter. It was included after
learned discussion.
The whole point of this is that it was basically a male group of editors
and men were mostly the ones who sent in word examples and who made the
decisions to include the word.
My best guess at the moment is that spangling bobbins started after 1750
and probably quite closer to 1800. No proofs offered, just that feeling
I have having been writing about bobbins for a lot of years.
--
Brian Cooranbong Australia.
If you are a bit bored, then spend a bit of time looking at my Hobbies
below. Patchwork Activities:
My modern Quilt journey Part 1. https://modernquiltjourney.wordpress.com/
Slap-dash Art quilts (Follow on from the above.i.e. part 2.)
https://slapdashartquilts.weebly.com/ Lace Bobbin activities
My Antique Lace Bobbin Dictionary:http://www.brianlemin.com/
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