[lace] plastic bobbins (was Girl Scouts & Bobbin)

2007-12-29 Thread Jane Partridge
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Mouzons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >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

[lace] plastic bobbins (was Girl Scouts & Bobbin)

2007-12-29 Thread the Mouzons
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