How about this for a "lace bobbin"?
http://tinyurl.com/crnjay
or search for item number 170306947189
The seller says "I've been to watch the Spanish lace making ladies. None
seemed to have anything like it and they all said it was very old.", and she
asks if anyone can tell her what it is.
Hmmm...
I agree that the bulbous end is probably a handle. The abrupt end to
that 'handle' makes it look as though there should be some sort of
cover that slips over the narrower part.
Could it be a tool for turning, say, glove fingers?
But then why would it have fancy turning? And why do m
I think it might be a darning egg.
Adele
North Vancouver, BC
(west cost of Canada)
On Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
How about this for a "lace bobbin"?
http://tinyurl.com/crnjay
or search for item number 170306947189
The seller says "I've been to watch the Spa
That was the first thing that came to my mind. ;-)
bobbi
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:21:44 -0800 Adele Shaak writes:
> I think it might be a darning egg.
>
> Adele
> North Vancouver, BC
> (west cost of Canada)
>
> On Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
>
> > How about this
Dear Dom and
others
Then,
of course, there is always the "tatting lady" who will insist that we are
"tatting" like "my grandmother did, but
Hallo to all
i have an other question
it is also knitting related
on that knitting event in Holland were i found those lovely knitting
needles i was also there as an seller of our threads
and quite often we were confronted whit a question i did not directly
had an aswer for
they asked if it was
I have a really good one! While demonstrating BL, a lady came up to me and
said, " you know that is just going to fall apart when you take all those
pins out, don't you?" I said oh no it is woven, just like this piece I am
wearing, I made it the same way, see! She said oh no that is different
Hello Francis,
they asked if it was laceweight, and other teminolegy concerning
the thickness of the threads
A few years ago, I bought from you in Germany, at a DKV congress, 50%
qiuviut 50% silk and I knitted a lace shawl with needles 3.5 mm. I
would think this thread is laceweight but
The priceless classic story from our area, which I did not hear personally
but has been passed down is this:
A woman had been standing and watching bobbin lace being made for a while,
and then she said:
"If I die and go to h*ll, that's what they're going to make me do!"
Regina
New York
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Some more 'I don't know what they are so I'll call them bobbins' on eBay.
Item number 160318638519
Diana in Northants
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Hello Francis and everyone
there doesn't seem to be a standard measure for the knitting yarns in Nm
etc., the measuring is comparative, that is to say, what size fabric you can
knit.
I found a general discussion here:
http://knittingcrochet.suite101.com/article.cfm/yarnweight
and a comparison b
Avital,
I'm not sure exactly what it is, whether a headdress of some sort or just a
close up of a section of another garment. The text for the entire page
translated with the babelfish program is:
"Unforgotten crafts In Moscow in the gallery of " [Belyaevo]" is from
November 28 to January 15, 200
Hi Francis,
If you would like a good description of the various terms used by knitters for
different kinds of thread, try the Halcyon website:
www.halcyonyarn.com
Look under Yarn by weight and you will see it described by yards/lb,
yards/unit, wpi, and laceweight, etc. Sorry, there aren't
About Russian Kokoshnik Headdresses:
1. You can learn about these in the book: "Russian Embroidery and Lace" by
L. Yefimova & R. Belogorskaya, published by Thames & Hudson, 1987, ISBN
0-500-01358-6. The foreword was written by "our lace scholar", Santina Levey!
Two examples of kokoshni
There are several different thicknesses of thread for making Shetland
lace (a knitted lace)
Different manufacturers call them by different names. Historically they
all spun the yarn from Shetand wool, as it dresses well after making,
and keeps its shape.
I'm currently using one ply wool wit
Hello Francis
I too have Googled and found a few useful pages. The best one is:
http://www.colourmart.com/eng/knowledge_base/knitting_properties
other useful info at:
http://www.kilkeelknitwear.com/new_page_19.htm
(bottom of page)
http://reviews.ebay.com/Machine-Knitting-Acrylic-Yarns-Weights
While demonstrating last year at an annual 'festivel', I was making a piece of
Beds lace - A Christine springett pattern, and I was working in purple
thread.
I had just made myself a Biscornu Pin cushion , the Hardanger embroidery in a
purpleish variegated thread, which looked nice on the pillow!
Thanks, Jeri! As always, you have a font of information at your
fingertips. I suspected there was some kind of fertility connection
behind the egg-shaped protuberances of the headdress. I've seen a
number of pictures of Russian headdresses but never that kind.
Thanks again!
Avital
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Hello Sue,
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