I recall once that I forgot my lacemaking table for a class and Maria Provencher suggested I keep the pillow in my lap and elevate my feet on a stool, holding the pillow in the lap. She claimed that this was the way that it was always done in Belgium and that you could work for hours without your back hurting. I recall it was suprisingly comfortable. However, I am not sure that bobbin lace is the discipline we are speaking of here. The seller makes the interesting comment that the stool was found in the vicinity of Nottingham, the English lace making center, and was must likely used by an outworker. My understanding is that Nottingham was the center of a machine lace industry. The outworkers, if I am not mistaken, did needle-running and finishing to the machine made net. My history is rather murky, but I think the net machine was just beginning to be used in the era she spoke of, 1780. Does anyone have the ability to clarify whether there is any other interpretation of her remarks? (Not that I think they are so well thought out that they deserve this level of analysis.) Devon
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