I wasn't amused by the reference to barley straw, because I know that is
correct - my own Honiton pillow is made this way. But it was the
"demonstration pillow" part that made me laugh!!
Clay
On 4/22/2011 1:19 AM, Alex Stillwell wrote:
Hi Arachnids
In the article about Honiton lace the sentence "Honiton lace is worked on a
"demonstration pillow" filled with barley straw." is correct. I made my first
Honiton pillow before polystyrene pillows were available and the instructions
were to stuff it with barley straw. I still have it and use it. Barley straw
was the most favoured filling for pillows because the nodes, the lumps in the
stem of the stalk where the leaves are joined on, are not as hard as they are
in other types of straw and do not cause problems when inserting pins.
Keep lacemaking
Alex
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