I recently managed to obtain a copy of A Penderel Moody's Devon Pillow lace, and decided to see what he had to say about pillows.... It certainly says that the cover cloths were brightly coloured! The copy I have was printed in 1904 and it states:
differing in make from the old trolley shape rounded like a mis-shapen orange to the flat mushroom pillow. They are usually filled with wheat straw, .............A good, serviceable pillow will be .................................................Two circles of heavy cotton material, jean, or Oxford shirting, Sue in East Yorkshire On 7 Apr 2010, at 00:07, Brenda Paternoster wrote: > 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. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
