Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay
It looks like we're getting to him/her!! The seller is now saying he/she is having doubts about it being a lace bobbin, and has given two enquiries to that effect. Hasn't published mine (or Amanda's, I don't think) and has changed the story from 'selling it for someone else' to 'bought it at an antiques fair'. Could be a handle from a lot of things such as a stilletto, crochet hook, button hook but if it came in a whole box of needlework bits and pieces then the remote similarity to a bobbin was enough to convince him that's what it is. Jacquie - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay
I took a good look at your 'bobbin' . I think it may have been used in embrodery, when the stitcher doesn't a picture drawn and the fabric is really goiing to show any markings. One of my grandma's had one in her sewing box. She said she used it to stuff some of her embrodery. I'm sure that it was my dad's mother, as mother was the baby andthe older ggits has given everything away. Any way It never came my way. I don't promise thats what that is, bbut it looks similar. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay
I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace. This is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a bobbin... or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being resourceful?) But it clearly wasn't originally made as a bobbin... so what WAS it?? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=2219item=7324298097 Clay Well, I told them it wasn't a lace bobbin (and why it wasn't - no neck, no head, spangle wrong with new wire) and got the answer that they are selling for someone else and that it what they said it was and that they had to take their word for it, I rather got the impression that they would rather believe their customer than me. Hope someone doesn't buy it taking their word for what it is. Anyone else game for trying to change the sellers mind? Amanda Nottingham, England - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Bobbin on ebay
YES! I think it's that too. I remember our scratch pens we were forced to use in 4th grade and they looked much like that much simpler of course. There was a cork doughnut around the spangle end of the bobbin and the metal nibs fit into the doughnut. I NEVER got the hang of making the darn pens work! But I was lousy in pensmenship any how. Thank goodness I didn't live in the pre fountain pen days! Trish in very rainy West Virginia I think I have got the answer. It is a bone pen holder. (Like a nib holder on the bottom part into which you placed the nib) What do you think? Jean and Brian from Cooranbong, Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: [lace] bobbin on ebay
Hi Clay and everyone I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace. This is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a bobbin... or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being resourceful?) But it clearly wasn't originally made as a bobbin... so what WAS it?? I like to think it was used by a lacemaker who was being resourceful - the one bobbin broke and here was a doo-dad that could be cobbled into a replacement. I used a BIC pen once, when a bobbin broke - why not this a century or so ago LOL As to what it really is/was, I hold with Brian's message that it was a handle, on account of its taper - a nib holder, or for any of the other tools that Victorians wanted to keep to hand -- bye for now Bev in Sooke, BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay
Clay, I think it must have once been the handle to something as the spangle end looks like it went into something. A stick base for a fan or a doll's parasol? In any case is sure is strange! Trish in sunny West Virginia I do enjoy seeing some of the strange things people associate with lace. This is a bobbin which someone may have spangled after deciding it was a bobbin... or it may have actually been used by a lacemaker (who was being resourceful?) But it clearly wasn't originally made as a bobbin... so what WAS it?? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=2219item=7324298097 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] bobbin on ebay - alleviating ?
(snip) A brass pin would lend strength to the relatively fragile part, like steel rebar in pre-stressed concrete. If the pin were recessed into the head to produce a smooth surface, you wouldn't even notice it was there, except that your bobbins wouldn't break at the head. Patty Would the pin be put in to the bobbin blank before turning then? I don't know anything about wood or turning but I would have thought that if the pin was put in after it splinter the neck of the bobbin? jenny Either way - suppose the bobbin blank were to be soaked in water or oil, would that help to prevent the cracking when the pin was put in ? Or would it then crack anyway when it 'dried' out ? Toni in Seattle - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
