Bev wrote:
If the early lacemakers lived in areas where cacti grew. Certainly not the
UK. Would Spain be a possibility?
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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In reference to cactus thorns - or at least the ones I've run into in the
desert southwest (US) - they are all barbed to a certain degree, so they
easily go in, but catch on the way back out. Some experiences have been
painful. So I highly doubt cactus thorns would have been used for
lacemaking.
Bev wrote:
Jean Nathan wrote:
If the early lacemakers lived in areas where cacti grew. Certainly not the
UK. Would Spain be a possibility?
No, cacti would not have been used by early European laceamakers. The family
is found only in the New World (North, Central, a
Last week I saw a small bolster pillow from Brazil with strong thorns
used as pins. I was in a workshop in Italy and one of the
participants brought this little gem in to show us. Nobody in the
class could identify the thorns. They were about 4 cm long, strong,
smooth and very pointy, making them
