This is what David Springet calls a right hand spiral.
In C&D Springett's book "Success to the Lace Pillow" and Jeffrey Hopewell'
s Shire album on Pillow Lace and Bobbins both show pictures of left hand and right hand spiral inscriptions, though the left hand ones generally read from top to bottom.
I remember, years ago, hearing David Springett talk about turning bobbins.
To get the spiral groove for the wire, (which most inscribed bobbins have)
the maker holds the cutting tool diagonally to the bobbin on the lathe and moves it along. David said that he'd always thought that that meant that you could tell if the bobbin maker was left or right handed; David is right handed and turns right handed bobbins, but not long before that talk a fellow bobbin maker had said "No! when I get fed up turning right hand spirals I just twist my hand round over the bobbin and turn a left hand one!
(the way Ann in Manchester writes).
Incidentally the straight inscriptions have inscriptions going in both directions but about 2/3 are read with the spangle to the right and 1/3 with the spangle to the left. I know that one of my left spangle bobbins was painted/written by a left hander and two of the right hand spangle bobbins were painted/pyrographed by right handers
Brenda
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