Hello Lorraine
One way is to secure the bobbins to the pillow with double-pronged
jeweller's pins.
I use these when transporting a pillow with lace work in progress on,
and they never fail to keep the
bobbins in place.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
Lorraine Weiss wrote:
Hello all--
A conservator friend sent this to me from a conservation listserve, and I am
forwarding it here in case someone in or near Toronto can help the writer.
regards,
Lorraine Weiss in Albany, NY
From: Shirley Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 5, 2007 10:51:25 AM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lace-making pillow
Reply-To: Textile Conservators <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello All,
We have a lace-making pillow WITH bobbins and attached lace going out on
display. The threads are currently tangled up and the bobbins splayed out in
a half circle. The curator would like this pillow to look as if it was "being
worked", ie with portions of the bobbins looped over pins in various sections
on the pillow.
I am concerned about the weight of the bobbins, hanging from their threads
and would like to have them supported on display. Does anyone have any
experience or knowledge of seeing lace-making pillows and bobbins on exhibit
and how this was handled? Obviously, whatever is done needs to be unobtrusive
and right now I can't think of anything other than plexi tiers which really
isn't that minimal.
Any ideas would be welcome.
thanks
shirley
Shirley Ellis
Textile Conservator, Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C6
ph: 416 586-5878; fax: 416 586-8036
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