Hi Daphne, Bev et al,
I do love bone bobbins, but I have heard Steven Pearce talk on making
bobbins several times, and as he makes only bone bobbins, it is a real
performance! He has all sorts of air filters in the garden shed where he
makes them, and also has a sort of mask-like job to put over his face, so he
is breathing in purified air rather than bone dust, as that - apparently -
is dangerous and carcinogenic.
Maybe that explains why bone is generally more expensive, and less easily
available!
Carol - in Suffolk UK
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From: "bevw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daphne Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "lace" <lace@arachne.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [lace] lace Bobbins
Hello Daphne and everyone
There are some excellent Q and As at Kenn van Dieren's site:
http://www.bobbinmaker.com/faqbob.html
My quick answer is if bone was nicer to work with than wood, for the
bobbin
maker, maybe we'd all be using more bone bobbins than wood bobbins. I
prefer
wood though, any time.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Daphne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Bone bobbins versus wood bobbins
While a lot of bobbins are turned in hard woods are not so easy to come
by.
It takes a lot of time to grow the trees, where`as the bones are easier
to
get, because most are cattle bones.
--
Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
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