Thank you for bringing up this thread, Brian!
Many years ago, I was fortunate to hear a lecture about old bobbins.
The speaker was Holly VanSciver, and I consider her a knowledgeable and
sensible resource! Her advice about restoring bobbins (in response to a
question from the audience) was that it was fine to do anything to a
bobbin to make it possible for you to use it, *as long as what you do
can be undone*! Therefore, you may re-wire an old bobbin, put new beads
in the spangle, even replace missing wire and tinsel... because all of
this things can be undone.
So that is the approach I have taken with the antiques I have. I think
it is important that this be done for your own use, however. It would
be completely wrong to restore a bobbin in this manner and try to pass
it off (on ebay, for example) as a pristine example, unless you stated
in the description what had been done to restore it.
Clay
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