In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Vibeke Ervo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> The predominant British reel was >called the Nottingham reel, based on the wooden lace bobbin devised in >that ancient lacemaking town. It was a wide-drum, ungeared, very >free-running reel, My first thought to this was the bobbin used on some machines which looks like two flat discs very close together - the thread is held between the discs. Admittedly I don't see many fishing rods these days (my brother used to fish when he was in his teens - probably about 40 years ago now!), but this seems the closest to the reel on those I have seen. The quote also made me wonder what their definition of 'ancient' is! Old as a town, maybe, but Heathcoat's machine lace didn't start there - he developed his machines in Loughborough, and moved to Nottingham in the early 1800s when the Luddites smashed up his factory. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
