I have recently been in contact with an academic, author and researcher on
"lace" (generic use of the word).
I took the opportunity to raise the issue of bobbins used for gold/metallic
lace in antiquity. The literature on English bobbins along with
illustrations various writers on Antique la
I don't think I've ever heard of a Botany Bay bobbin, Brian. Did you mean
the Batavia bobbin?
.Noelene
nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au
> Seeing Noelene's post about a lace maker convict made me realize that I do
> not have a picture of the /a (are there more than one?) Botany Bay bobbin.
>
> Can a
Seeing the work that you lace makers are engaged in made me almost jealous
(no... I really do not want to learn how to make lace!) so I thought I would
tell you what I have been galvanized into.
I now have, in draft form, Pictures (6x4 printable) of 670 lace bobbins,
all annotated (short, as
Seeing Noelenes post about a lace maker convict made me realize that I do
not have a picture of the /a (are there more than one?) Botany Bay bobbin.
Can anyone help with a picture please?
Thanks
Brian and Jean
from Cooranbong. Australia
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On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:47, Jenny Brandis wrote:
http://www.essortment.com/articles/make-handmade-lace_6501.htm
From the website:
You wind the thread on what looks like little four inch chair legs.
What kind of chair? Chippendale? Hepplewhite? Queen Ann? Jacobean?
Inquiring minds want to kno
On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:40, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Not me!!!
http://www.ehow.com/how_2105908_make-bobbin-lace.html
Terrible instructions. But, the best laugh I've had in a long time.
Wrap one bobbin around another???
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Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington,
Diana Smith wrote:
I remember watching a lady in one of the finest lace shops in Bruges
who amazed customers at the speed in which she worked.
But under closer scrutiny what she was doing with the bobbins most of
the time was rolling, rattling and tapping with such a rhyme - it
would take anoth
Ilske
That sounds very interesting, could you send me a photo of your pillow
or put a photo onto the Arachne webshot site?
http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
I will have to ask the group for the Arachne album areas password as it
has slipped my mind.
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Jenny Brandis,
Kununurra
I remember watching a lady in one of the finest lace shops in Bruges who
amazed customers at the speed in which she worked.
But under closer scrutiny what she was doing with the bobbins most of the
time was rolling, rattling and tapping with such a rhyme - it would take
another lacemaker to spot
Taken from "Conditions of the Working Class," by Frederick Engels, 1844.
'Another branch of lace making, bobbin lace work is carried on in the
agricultural shires of Northants, Oxford and Bedford chiefly by children and
young persons, who complain universally of bad food and rarely taste meat
On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:52, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
Ah, a subject of endless fascination to me!
It has been my hunch that there were lacemakers who were prostitutes
when
necessary, and there were prostitutes who made lace between clients,
I've always thought the first was more likely t
Hello Everybody,
having had some not so nice days because of gastroenteritis I had only
a short Christmas time but before a wonderful birthday and no
lacemaking at all. But on my pillow are still a few ideas of
structure. Working into ground, on a big grid with very thin thread,
things lik
<> Onderwerp: [lace] or these instructions?
http://www.essortment.com/articles/make-handmade-lace_6501.htm>
Interesting that the header says "A popular handmade lace is bobbin lace
which uses weaving and stitching to put patterns on pillows."
All my lace pillows are plain - and wouldn't yo
Reminds me how I started. Closely observing a lady in a street fair I had
something like this in mind and tried at home. Next action: to the library
for a book with instructions.
> Onderwerp: [lace] or these instructions?
>
> http://www.essortment.com/articles/make-handmade-lace_6501.htm
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To un
Brenda, you are quite right about retrolacing on the streets in Belgium.
Back in the 1970s when we were living in England, Clive was in school at
SHAPE HDQ in Mons. I had only been making lace a year or so but was
savvy enough to realize that the "street-lacers," many of whom were young
girls, we
The lady I watched on a street corner in Belgium was actually making
reverse lace!
She was making a big show of it and tossing her bobbins around but when
I looked closely she was doing:
cross, twist, cross, twist, untwist..
Perhaps she learned BL using a few inches of string!
Brenda
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