Re: [lace] Honiton article

[Maureen Bromley]

I still have my original honiton pillow which is made with barley straw. 
But I cheated and bought my from Dennis Hornsby.It is quite large and 
heavy.I had seen him at a Lace Day in Essex in the early 80s.   I had 
run out of money by the time I saw it and he had only one left.I  said I 
was spent up and would he send it to me if I sent him a cheque the following 
week and he very kindly agreed that I could take it with me, the postage 
would have been a lot, then send him a cheque. He said that as I was a 
lacemaker he could trust me, plus I had a teeshirt on that had the name of 
the company my husband worked for at the time!!!   I did go on to make a 
couple of honiton straw pillows myself but they are a lot softer than they 
should be really.  Must admit I don't remember a 'honiton pillow' being 
called a 'demonstration pillow before'.A gap in my lace education 
perhaps??!!


Maureen
E Yorks UK (where it is unusually sunny and warm)

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Re: [lace] Honiton article

[Clay Blackwell]

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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