I'd like to put in my thoughts about that Brian, not as a bobbin maker but as a house restorer. I see a lot of old houses bought up cheap and extensively renovated to make them into something they are not: the boards stripped with orbital sanders, the kitchens tripled in size and the bathrooms full of glass bricks and steel. If it's your house, by all means do what you like with it, but I call that renovation, not restoration. If however, you want to fix an architrave where a piece has been gouged out of it, you find a matching piece of timber and carefully line it up so it blends into the original, that to me is restoration. If you are careful to keep the patina of age, while at the same time rendering a house or to return to the point, a bobbin, usable and able to be enjoyed for what it is, I think you should be commended. Trouble is, to keep that patina where the surfacing coating is a bit worn or whatever, and to allow the bobbin to look gracefully old once restored would be a very fine line.
I too would be interested in the responses to this discussion, and stand beside you in the firing line. --- Rochelle Sutherland & Lachlan (12 yrs), Duncan (11 yrs) and Iain (10 yrs) www.houseofhadrian.com.au ________________________________ From: Brian Lemin <brid...@bigpond.com> To: lace@arachne.com Sent: Thu, 20 January, 2011 4:31:01 PM Subject: [lace] How do you feel about "Restored Bobbins? I want to write an article in favour of restoring antique lace bobbins, but I am afraid that I might lose too many lovely friends on Arachne if I put it in writing! It was seeing a poorly restored bobbin that got me going! It would have to be done "properly" and as far as possible "historically" Now is your opportunity to shoot me down in flames! :) I know about free speech and all that... never-the-less let me know what *you* think. Thanks - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
