This would be early nineteenth century rather than eighteenth, and sounds as though it's an East Midlands bolster pillow. AFAIK they came in all sorts of colours, often with printed patterns. It's only fairly recently that BL pillows have been plain dark colours, the first pillow I made (you couldn't buy them back in the 1970s) was a round 'cookie' type and was covered with pink and white gingham!
Brenda On 6 Apr 2010, at 19:10, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: > I am colouring in a drawing for decoupage, which I am going to put on one of > the wooden storage boxes I have. It is a drawing by William Henry Pyne > (1769-1843) from his series of rustic figures, and the one I am working on is > a lady doing pillow lace. She is using one of those cylinder pillows. > > The question is, what colour would they have been, and what were they made > of? I know I don't have to make it authentic, but it would be nice if it was > just a little bit. Brenda in Allhallows paternos...@appleshack.com http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
