Re: [lace] bones, thorns etc.
"...A friend of mine made a lacepillow with knuckles from sheep's feet as bobbins, it looked very convincing, but her dog ate the bones before she had made a photo." I have some beautiful hand carved and scrimshawed bobbins from Zimbabwe that cost many . I have one less than I used to have because our border collie ate the top of one of them. I made the body of it into a pin-lifter. I was very mad at the dog!! Malvary from Ottawa where my washing out on the line, got wet twice today!! - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] bones, thorns etc.
> A friend of mine made a lacepillow with knuckles from sheep's feet as bobbins, > it looked very convincing, but her dog ate the bones before she had made > a photo. > Vibeke in Copenhagen I had to smile at this one, Vibeke, our school-children used to tell their teachers, when their class work had not been completed and so was not ready to be handed in : "My dog ate it" . . . Toni in Seattle - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] bones, thorns etc.
PINS The book by Sophie Davydoff 'La dentelle russe, histoire, technique, statistique'( Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1895) is now available online thanks to Tess and the Professor. If you look at plate A you will see thorns of wild pear used as pins in the Minsk area of Russia. If you look at page 46 of the OIDFA Bulletin 4/1999 you will see a lacepillow from Dalecarlia in Sweden with pins cut from wood. It is exceptional that such a primitive pillow has been preserved. Aino Linnove states that in Finland pins of fish backbones and wood were used. The dividing pins could be made of pig's teeth. Bodil Tornehave is more specific she states that it is the backbones of perch you use to make pins. BOBBINS Bones used as bobbins is shown on page 155 of Androula Hadjiyiasemi's 'Lefkara Lace Embroidery' (Nicosia, 1987,reprinted 1999 ISBN 9963-7643-1-2). A friend of mine made a lacepillow with knuckles from sheep's feet as bobbins, it looked very convincing, but her dog ate the bones before she had made a photo. Greetings Vibeke in Copenhagen - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
