Had that teacher in Prague never had any left handed students? how ignorant
and discriminatory to not allow for left handedness. No one can help being
left handed.
I am left handed and can't wind my bobbins any other way than to hold the
bobbin in my right hand and then turn it in a clockwise direction with the
tail towards me and head pointing away, I have the thread in my left. If I
use my bobbin winder I have the thread on the left just the same and turn
the handle of the winder with my right hand, winding the bobbin away from
me. Whether I wind by hand or winder I put the hitches on my bobbins by
wrapping the thread around my left thumb, which lets the thread out easily
enough once a right handed person realises that they need to turn the bobbin
in the opposite direction to their usual way to release a length of the
thread. Easy enough to do you just have to stop and think for a second.
My right handed lace teacher, Alexandra Stilwell, back in the 1980s never
had a problem with my way of winding bobbins when she had to help me sort
out the muddle I had made on my pillow.
I have taught a couple of right handed friends to make lace and between us I
managed to teach them to wind their bobbins in a right handed manner so that
they worked in a natural way for them, rather than my kak handed way. When I
have helped another lacemaker who has got stuck or in a muddle I manage to
work with her right handed wound bobbins without any problems.
The only difference you notice is when letting out thread from the bobbins,
I have to unwind the thread from the bobbins in the opposite direction to
how I am used to doing with my own bobbins. It may slow you down a very tiny
bit but then, if you are teaching someone to make lace, you would not be
working too fast anyway, would you?
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.
<<Nothing like as disconcerting, frustrating and annoying as to be
told by a teacher, as I was in Prague, 'Oh your bobbins are wound the
wrong way round. I can't work like this. You'll have to rewind them
if you want my help' And I had to - 40 pairs!!!>>
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