In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Mouzons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >The black bobbins do look like ebony, the >white ones look like bone and the brown ones are similar to wood!
So much so, that a year or two ago one of my students discovered a craft centre "antique shop" trying to pass six of the white bobbins off as bone! They were charging six pounds each for them, whereas in the catalogue they would only have cost about 65p new. When I went to the same centre some months later they still had them, and as Peggy had found, they weren't even interested when the fact that they were easily available plastic bobbins was pointed out to them. I don't know if they ever managed to sell them at that price. Obviously, it depends on the transport available as to how much a determined tutor can carry - but once, having been asked to teach a workshop of beginners and not having the necessary equipment, I bought the necessary pillows and bobbins at the Lace Guild Convention in Norwich, got it home to Tamworth (20 miles north of Birmingham, in the UK Midlands) and then later carried sufficient equipment for ten students, together with some books and items to show what lace is about, to the shop in Coventry where the workshop was to take place, and both journeys were by train. By the end of the workshop my husband had finished his day's work and was able to collect me plus pillows etc by car, but with careful packing I was able to carry the lot in three bags. (On the way back from convention I had my normal weekend luggage, too). Six of the pillows were flat, four domed, the flat ones are much easier to carry! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
