I thought I had some information and pictures about them, but a couple of months ago I accidentally formatted my data disk and lost every thing. I did have all my "English stuff" backed up but clearly not my continental stuff (that will learn me!)
I found this URL which will be a good starter. http://zephyrandco.canalblog.com/tag/Bobbin%20lace I believe it was/is a lace making area. My French geography is not good enough to tell you where. They used short "stubby" bobbins highly and interestingly hand carved. It is an area that is quite tourist centered and in modern years they produced a lot of wooden carved objects for tourists and bobbins were part of this for some time. The last time I tried to get one I was told that they had stopped producing them. I discovered them from an article in a lace journal ( I forget which, probably IOLI) some years ago, I was immediately fascinated by them. Brian and Jean >From Cooranbong. Australia You can read my bobbin stuff on: http://tiny.cc/egb85 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
