In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Mouzons
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>The black bobbins do look like ebony, the
>white ones look like bone and the brown ones are similar to wood!
So much so, that a year or two ago one of my students discovered a craft
centre "antique shop" trying to pass six o
Noelene wrote:
"When I first started trying to encourage locals to try bobbin lace, I
invested in 200 black plastic bobbins from Hornsbys in the UK. ..."
This is another hurrah for plastic bobbins...it is exactly the way I
started classes here in the States (middle Georgia) when we moved back
Alice Howell wrote:
--- Daphne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I totally agree ...in saying there is nothing
wrong with plastic bobbins.
I confess that like many others, I started with a Dryad kit, and still
have it to this day.
I lend the pillow and plastic bobbins to people who
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Subject: [lace] lace plastic bobbins
Hello one and all.
I would like to add my comments to the plastic bobbins
thread.
I totally agree with Jean in saying there is nothing wrong wi
--- Daphne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I totally agree ...in saying there is nothing
> wrong with plastic bobbins.
I started with plastic bobbins, and still use them on
occasion. I wanted to point out that not all plastic
bobbins are the same quality. I have seen a few that I
would not w
Hello one and all.
I would like to add my comments to the plastic bobbins
thread.
I totally agree with Jean in saying there is nothing wrong with plastic
bobbins. The lace does`nt know wether its made by plastic or bone. It is a
little snobbery with some lacemakers [we have
The Lace List is fairly quiet right now, so I thought
I'd pose a question. I just saw a batch of plastic
continental bobbins on eBay. (You can find them by
searching 'plastic lace bobbins'.) They are Belgium
in style.
I have used plastic Midlands with spangles to give
them weight. I've never s
Hi,
I've recently acquired what seems like a fairly sizable number of
plastic Midlands bobbins (probably around 15-20 pairs). They're all
nice and smooth and have spangles but I don't like the way they
balance in my hands compared to wooden bobbins. If anyone would take
them off my hands (w
Andy Blodgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Is someone looking for plastic bobbins?
I have some I would be willing to give to you. Please contact me privately at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Blodgett
Jane Viking Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I think someone was
looking for plastic bobbins
Hi All, I think someone was looking for plastic bobbins in the US. Both
Holly Van Sciver www.vansciverbobbinlace.com and Lacemaker
www.lacemakerusa.com carry them for $5.50 a dozen.
I happen to have those two catalogues to check in. You could also check
Lacy Susan, Kathy Kirchener and other US
> Hope somebody remembered to tell you never to leave the plastic
> bobbins in the car in summer.Saw one once which had melted to the
shape
> of the cookie pillow and also had the markings of the thread on the
eck -
> not a pretty picture :-(
>
Thanks Shirley, bobbins melting, oops.
Carole wrote...
> I have a wooden one which was on the pillow for a long
time (are we
> back to the length of time the UFOs have been hanging
around?) and that one
> has a sort of slightly elliptical shape, but what caused
that, I really
> don't know. It could have been heat, or probably just
that
y just that worn-out feeling
.
Carol - in Suffolk UK, where it is hot and sunny - our summer is here. I
just hope it lasts while we are in Wales...
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Hi Lynn,
>I have a travel pillow made by Inez in Queensland. At the moment I am doing
>a piece of silk lace consisting of 21 pairs of midlands. I am using plastic
>bobbins that I got from Noelene
Hope somebody remembered to tell you never to leave the plastic
bobbins in
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