Yes, I have found the 'sideways discussion of auxiliary equipment' of very
enjoyable interest. I have not heard of any of this in 'our culture' here in
the USA.
Lorri
Yes, the stoof was still in common use in the Netherlands in the 1950s in the
Salland area when I was growing up. Both of
Hi Linda and other Arachnids,
Is âdickey potâ a local name? What is it? (showing my ignorance?). My
Collins dictionary gives dickey or dicky as the false shirt- or blouse front;
the informal name for a donkey -especially a male one-; the outside seat on an
vintage car or as dickybird a
Evening everyone
In the book Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson, the chapter 'Survivals'
about Queenie - lace maker and beekeeper. They would gather in one cottage in
winter for warmth, each one bringing her faggott or shovel of coals for the
fire. In very cold winter weather the lace
I included a section about foot warmers for lacemakers (including an
elaborate Dickey pot) in my Collecting: Furniture for the Lacemaker post
on LaceNews, http://tinyurl.com/n69h3ux.
Laurie
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Laurie Waters
lacen...@gmail.com,
The stoof / wooden box to put the pottery bowl into sounds a much safer option
than just using a bowl of hot embers.
A stoof was a wooden box of about 10â wide, 10â deep and 8â high which
had five holes in the top and an opening -10 x4 inches) in the front. Inside
was a pottery bowl were
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written sources please? and cherry blossom pattern? /divdiv
/divHi again,
Sorry, but I cannot cut the answer from Linda below without losing meaning of
my note here.
This dickey pot sounds a like the STOOF (pronounced stoaf as in boat) A stoof
was a wooden box of about 10��� wide, 10ï
Hi again,
Sorry, but I cannot cut the answer from Linda below without losing meaning of
my note here.
This dickey pot sounds a like the STOOF (pronounced stoaf as in boat) A stoof
was a wooden box of about 10â wide, 10â deep and 8â high which had five
holes in the top and an opening
Hi Linda
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/html/EXHIBITS/lace/lacehtml/14_firepots.html
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/cnm/html/EXHIBITS/lace/lacehtml/14_firepots.html
Thomas Wright âThe Romance of the Lace Pillowâ
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Romance_of_the_Lace_Pillow_Be
Recently I was looking up 'tralaticious' in the Oxford English
Dictionary Online, and found myself looking up 'dickey pot'. (Well, you
know how it is, as you get older?) There was no entry for 'dickey pot',
but there was a collection of quotations explaining how one meaning of
dickey, (or
