Did you know of the poem by Lewis Carroll called "The Hunting of the
Snark"
It includes mention (and a picture) of a lace making BEAVER!
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/carroll/lewis/snark/snark.html
He looks to me as though he is working a strange form of Tenerife lace, you
place the pins in the pad and then wind the thread around them, I think you
then sew over and under those threads to hold them in place and create the
design, something like that though I have never worked tenerife lace.
Sandra Stilwell, who is an expert at Tenerife lace, taught me to make
bobbin lace at classes in Essex. in the early 1980s. She used to bring
pieces of Tenerife to the classes at times and I believe she wrote a book or
two on the subject.
Perhaps Lewis Caroll, or the illustrator of the poem, had seen both Tenerife
and English laces being made and just confused the two.
It's like the tatting lady who visits many a lace day telling her companions
that the ladies sitting at their pillows are doing tatting. She comes here
to the Costa Brava on her holidays quite often.
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis.
Spain.
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