[lace] Spangled bobbins

[Jean Nathan]

Could it be that spangles were added to bobbins to make them a little 
heavier for when Bedfordshire lace was made in its coarser version, as 
opposed to Buckinghamshire and the finer Bedfordshire made with more 
delicate threads?

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 

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