Dear Spiders,
I always use the rhyme:
Weft goes from LEFT to right
to remind me which is the warp and which is the weft in weaving - I suppose
in bobbin lace the weaver pr is the equivalent to the weft on woven fabric.
Hope this helps you remember.
from
Andrea Lamble
in a rather damp and slushy C
The Springett's collection included "weighted lignum
vitae bobbins, 19th century, large bolbous bobbins
whith compartments which unscrew, believed to have
been used to make gold lace for vestments at York
Minster", no.643 in the auction catalogue, p.74 in
"Success to the Lace Pillow". These are no
Hi Spiders,
Somewhere in my travels, I saw some Indian square bobbins with brass dots.
Also, the early Italian bobbins were called piombinos because they were either
lead or lead weighted. These are hypothesis, which may or may not be provable.
Another possibility is some kind of home brew
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=945&item=6159496881&rd=1
These are very interesting. One they have lead weights and two they are
square..
Many moons ago we had quite good, separate discussions on both of these
bobbin features. We discovered that both features have been wi
