[lace] Cookie pillow question, and digest

[Sally Jenkins]

Hello lacers,

It seems I have not received the digest in several days. Has there been no
activity, or have I been inadvertently dropped? (I will find out if I see
this message posted, right?)

I have been wondering about the history and/or development of the cookie
pillow and its use. It seems all over Europe except for the U.K., the
bolster is the primary way of making lace, but in the U.K. and the U.S.,
the cookie pillow is customary. What caused the change? Maybe this is
addressed in a book someone can point me to.

Just curious,
Sally

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Re: [lace] Cookie pillow question, and digest

[Bev Walker]

Hello Sally and everyone

Bookmark this site, the arachne mail archive where you can check recent
posts,
https://www.mail-archive.com/lace@arachne.com/

Bolster pillows were used in the UK for cottage industry laces, maybe
cookies pillows, too, but not sure. I'm thinking the cookie pillow is more
recent - could be to do with when lacemaking became a hobby.
To see if anyone mentioned in previous posts, you could search 'cookie
pillow' in the arachne archive?!

HTH

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Sally Jenkins 
 wrote:

> Hello lacers,
>
> It seems I have not received the digest in several days. Has there been no
> activity, or have I been inadvertently dropped? (I will find out if I see
> this message posted, right?)
>
> --
Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of
Canada

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Re: [lace] Cookie pillow question, and digest

[Lin Hudren]

let's not forget the block pillow and all those that have drawers or
storage for tools in them.  i just love the variety and i have a "ball"
pillow that i put a yardage pricking on the sides and a motif on the top
and/or bottom.  it is great for when you are finishing up a motif and want
to have the next one ready to lace when traveling.  i have a roller/bolster
pillow that has openings on both ends to stow scissors, extra bobbins and
threads, etc.  if we are only limited in our creativity by our imagination,
think how many opportunities for different pillows that suit our
imaginations.


Hugs, Lin and the Mali

The end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know
the place for the first time.  -T.S. Elliott

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Re: [lace] Cookie pillow question, and digest

[lacel...@frontier.com]

Yes, the List has been very quiet for a while.  Thanks for posting.
I don't the the historical answer to your question, but wanted to make some
comments on pillows.
There are many styles of pillows -- flat, cookies, round balls, bolsters of
various sizes and shapes, roller pillows in a variety of sizes and shapes. 
Lace developed all over Europe in the days when communication was much more
difficult than today.  The style of lace varied, and the bobbins and pillows
used in an area were developed by the people in that area to suit their lace
type.  The threads available to a region varied.   It's easy to imagine how
variations in equipment styles would develop as people found out what worked
best for themselves.

The cookie pillow does seem to appear mainly in the UK, but the continental
seagrass pillow is much the same shape.  Which came first?

Pictures of early UK lacemakers often show big round balls of pillows.  My
imagination can see someone saying that  since only the top portion of the
pillow was used, so why not make a pillow the shape of the top portion only. 
That would result in a sort of cookie pillow. 

Parallel to the pillow development was bobbin development.  When and how did
the Midlands bobbin develop?  They are used on cookie pillows but are not
suitable for bolsters.  Which came first -- cookies or Midlands?  Did they
develop together?
So -- I did not answer your question, but just make it bigger. I will be
watching for comments from those of you who know about one pillow or another.
Alice in Oregon -- starting a week of mostly sunshine and warm for October. 
Will be spending the next 3 weeks getting ready for my lace exhibit at Latimer
Textile Center in Nov and Dec. Wish it was closer to all of you so you could
see it.



 On Monday, October 12, 2015 11:49 AM, Sally Jenkins
 wrote:


 Hello lacers,

It seems I have not received the digest in several days. Has there been no
activity, or have I been inadvertently dropped? (I will find out if I see
this message posted, right?)

I have been wondering about the history and/or development of the cookie
pillow and its use. It seems all over Europe except for the U.K., the
bolster is the primary way of making lace, but in the U.K. and the U.S.,
the cookie pillow is customary. What caused the change? Maybe this is
addressed in a book someone can point me to.

Just curious,
Sally

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[lace] Chantilly lace study group

[Lorelei Halley]

Hello
Back in July there was some brief discussion of a possible Chantilly lace
study group being set up somewhere. So I contacted Lia Baumeister-Jonker and
asked her if I could post some of her Chantilly lessons on laceioli. She
graciously agreed and gave permission for me to post her first 2 lessons.
These were originally published in the IOLI Bulletin in 2014 and 2015. They
also appear in her spiral bound booklet of Chantilly lessons.

The lessons are spread over several pages on laceioli. And here is a link to
the list of pages.  If anyone is interested in participating in joint
exploration of these lessons, please let me know.

http://laceioli.ning.com/group/point-ground-laces/page/chantilly-bobbin-lace-
lessons

I have laceioli set so everyone can see everything on the site. But if you
want to ask questions or post comments you have to join laceioli. It is free
to join.

Lorelei Halley
administrator
laceioli
http://laceioli.ning.com

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