This is an intriguing description for an item on ebay. Firstly does the
seller really mean pillow maker? Secondly, where in England would it have
been used? I always thought it was the large bolster for Bucks point or
Bedfordshire, or the small ball-shaped Honiton pillows that were used - any
--- Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
schrieb:
This is an intriguing description for an item on
ebay.
It is a spanish mundillo, a pillow based on the
french pillows, not used by professional lacemakers,
but by ladies who made lace for their dowry or the
church.
Original retail $350.00
350
Thanks Eva. I see someone has told the seller because it is now described as a
RARE ANTIQUE SPANISH MUNDILLO PILLOW LACE MAKER and the description has been
altered.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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This is an intriguing description for an item on eBay. Firstly does the
seller really mean pillow maker?
I think it should read - Lace maker's pillow.
And what is that around the roller?
It's a piece of Irish crochet. Well it's lace, and it's on a lace pillow.
Could have been tatting
I've met dozens of people when I've been demonstrating
bobbin lace whose grannies did tatting just like you're doing.
Evidently a universal problem:
Last summer when I was demonstrating bobbin lace at the Washington State
Fair, a woman came up to me almost breathless with enthusiasm. Look, she
On 5/26/06, Barbara Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last summer when I was demonstrating bobbin lace at the Washington State
Fair, a woman came up to me almost breathless with enthusiasm. Look, she
said to her friend, My father used to do that!
I replied, Your father made bobbin lace?!?!
She
Unusual lace pillow -- and described by someone who
knows little about it. The closest pillows I can
think of to this style would be Italian, not English.
There's very little bobbin surface. I think it would
work mainly for a narrow edging.
It looks like a piece of machine lace wrapped around
