It looks to me like a fancy sewing stand...and the top section is a pincushion
with a storage drawer. If I translated the size correctly (about 36"), it's
about right to stand beside a chair and hold supplies.
The only other thing that comes to mind would be some type of finger braiding
or cra
A second thought, might it be a hat stand?
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I don't think the "pillow" is usable and it also looks to be too high. I
rather think that it might have been a very fancy setup for netting or
something like that.
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> Gee, no response to this inquiry.?This is a needelace akin to
> Armenian knotted lace. One of several variations,
It says that it is a lace pillow stand.
The small pillow looks removable and the stand itself looks fit for a
Honiton pillow.
Agnes Boddington
Anyone care to venture a guess if this is related to lacemaking?
Laurie
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Gee, no response to this inquiry.?This is a needelace akin to Armenian knotted
lace. One of several variations, this is Turkish needle Oya. Can be
crocheted,beaded, etc. Oya loosely translates to embellishment. Learning
to make the knot is easy enough. Consistency, for beauty is HARD. As
At 03:50 AM 11/02/2011, Diana Smith wrote:
Does anyone have idea what this item is/was used for?
Listing number 290532958457
H - when I first saw the tortoise shell "bobbins" they looked
like clothes pegs to me and it reminded me of a kit I have from the
1930s which was a Silk Stocking R
I've had a really good look at this and I think Andrea is right. I've seen
similar looking pegs and line systems back in the 80s in camping shops so it
rang a bell.
L
Kind Regards
Liz Baker
thelace...@btinternet.com
My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:
http://thelacebee.wee
Excuse my frivolity but how about a 'travel' washing line and pegs for taking
on that cruise! The long brown things look a bit like the old fashioned wooden
'dolly' pegs and the thick cord could be the washing line - ideal for your
nylons and other 'smalls'!!
Andreausually in Cambridge, UK, but at
Sue,
Jenny Lind was Swedish not German. Google tells you the rest.
Ilske
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Don't know whether it is German, Jenny Lind was an opera singer I believe,
born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1821 and died in London in 1887. We had a
childrens hospital named after her in Norwich, in the 1960s my daughter had
a couple of operations there, hence my interest in finding out who Jenny
L
Hi Brian and Bev -
I think this is another example of an eBay seller who knows the words,
but doesn't know what they mean!! Even if the person were a
wood-turner, the scored pattern on the bobbin is not even remotely
"Jenny Lind"... I can go a stretch and imagine a "caterpillar" bobbin
bein
Just an idea, the seller probably knows about wood-turning for
furniture, but not about bobbin turning ?
I did a quick google for Jenny Lind wood-turning style, to see that
there are links for furniture about it.
On 12/6/10, Brian Lemin wrote:
> I would like to know more about this bobbin id anyo
I looked at my copy of the reprinted book on Tonder Lace by Emil Hanover and
though I could find no thistles the same general design layout is found in
some of the
laces he describes as Tonder Lille types.
'Regency Point' has no gimps around the outside of cloth areas so I think I
would
rule
Hi Patty - I agree with you that it's probably not Tonder. What struck
me was that the loads and loads of finger-like gimp-work looks a lot
like Beveren. Any thoughts?
Clay
Patricia Dowden wrote:
Hello all,
ebay item #250543185374
Just curious about this piece of lace, it says Txnder, ca
Hello all,
ebay item #250543185374
Just curious about this piece of lace, it says Txnder, can it really be
without tallies?
It's a pretty piece all the same,
Irene
=
I am not convinced this piece is Tonder.
The footside has c
Dear Laurie
I would also say that it is a lifting stick used in needlelace, when you are
using a needlelace pillow.You can still buy them new from Needlepaws,
based near Tamworth. Bob Weston makes them, his wife, Anne Weston was
formerly Chairman of The Guild of Needlelaces.They a
It looks like it could be something to slide under the needlelace while
working to raise a small area. Springetts used to give away a small
inscribed 'rolling pin' on their needlelace courses for this purpose.
Of course I may be wrong!!
Diana in Northants
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In a message dated 11/6/2008 3:44:13 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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I'm surprised that, as Jeri suggests, horsehair lace crimps when wet. It
never did when I washed my horses' mains and tails when they were still
attached to the animals.
Having no experience with wa
I cannot imagine even trying to make lace with horse hair, my granny had a
horse hair sofa when I was very young and when you sat on it you sometimes
got pricked by a loose hair sticking through, can still remember jumping
when that happened.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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The beautiful piece of hair lace in the collection of Northampton Museums is
needle lace and is in varying shades of blonde and light brown - we were
lucky to be able to display it in the expo in 1999.
Some years ago someone asked if I could make a piece of lace from horse
hair. They supplied
In a message dated 11/5/2008 9:42:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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But entire pieces of lace from hair!... Imagine
how long the hair would have had to be, and how many times - even then -
that you'd have to replace a strand with a new one. What an enormous
nuisanc
I wonder if this is an off-shoot of the 18th c. practice of making
jewelry from the hair of a loved one. Originally, these were made as
love tokens... and one would *never* wear such an item until they were
formally betrothed! But this was a way to keep the loved one near to
your heart. Whe
There is also an entire fan in Chantilly technique, very complex, at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art made in what appears to be either blond or gray
human
hair. From the same donor there are some dress ornaments in human hair. I
think they are supposed to be French.
Devon
**Plan y
When I was "studying" for a few days at the Luton Museum, the then curator
brought me a piece of human hair lace to see. It was a veil to a hat. I
never thought to photograph it, but it remains a fortunate memory of mine.
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I downloaded the picture which is quite clear. I think there is a chance it
could be BL.
Diana
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It's the type of thing the Victorians did (is it right to say
Victorians for 19th century Americans?) but I don't think it's BL,
looks more like NL to me.
Brenda
Amazing item on eBay no 120328659264
Antique bobbin lace mourning memorial made of human hair - the hair of
Anne Clerke.
Bren
Hi Laurie,
The listing does say that the pillow is made of leather - the original
leather. If you look at the third picture down at the bottom of the
picture you can see the grain in the leather which is somewhat irregular so
may be the real thing. However I guess it could be one of the earl
Hi Laurie -
This is an interesting pillow!
I question whether the surface is really leather. The way that it has slightly
split at the corner of the roller box makes me think it it one of those
"oilcloth" type covers, which were so often used in the French pillows.
But what struck me as mos
I wondered if the "leather apron" was actually the cover for the bottom
half of the pillow because the thing that first took my eye (and ears)
was an old lady making honiton lace in a shop in Honiton itself in about
1975, I remember well going into the shop and hearing this beautiful
rhythm of bobb
The wonderful book, "Kloppel,Kissen, Stander", (Bobbins, Pillows, Stands),
published by the German Bobbin Lacemakers' Association in 2002, shows similar
stands, particularly associated with Belgian pillows. Most of the stands have
a "rachet" on the back of the upright so that the height of the
I would have thought the leather "apron" was to go over the pillow (like a
cover cloth) to prevent the bobbins/threads catching on the edges of the
pricking. Or perhaps it's used to fasten the top of the bolster to the stand?
The shelf wouldn't be big enough to sit the whole pilow on, but it wou
This is a thread reel, half of a pair, for unwinding fine thread skeins.
Pretty one.
Kate Henry
Indiana USA
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:01 AM
Subject: [lace] Ebay Item
Does anyone know what this i
I am wondering if it is a old fashioned swift? Wind the thread
around it straight from the spinning wheel, tie off and lift upwards
to have a hank of thread? Reverse the process when you want to wind
the thread off the hank onto bobbins. Just an idea.
Jenny B
Kununurra, Western Australia
At
I believe it is an iron for pressing frills. It looks very much like the
puff iron I used when I was smocking. See
http://store.marthapullen.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=721&category_id=14for
a contemporary electric version.
Beth Stoll in Albuquerque
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Thank you Sof,
for the explanation.
Ilske
Am 5. Jul 2007 um 09:51 schrieb sof:
Hi Ilske,
For big collars (fraise in French = strawberry!)the iron you use is
like scissors or (as ther is on the picture) you use straw (metallic
or bulrush ?). The egg iron is more near the back of the women "hat
Hi Ilske,
For big collars (fraise in French = strawberry!)the iron you use is like
scissors or (as ther is on the picture) you use straw (metallic or
bulrush ?). The egg iron is more near the back of the women "hat" where
she put her chignon to make round.
Sof
Ilske Thomsen a écrit :
Sof,
I
Sof,
It could be that I undestand now. It is to make the small plaits in
German Plissee into textile. On the pictures into parts of the bonnets.
this big collars coming from Spain during the time of Philip II were
made like this too. Is it so?
Ilske
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Hello,
Yes, I know exactly what it is but it's difficult for me to explain.
It's an mushroom iron or egg iron.
It use to iron small pieces of women "hat" in 19 century in France.
This one is in smelting (?). It can be electric too
Here:
http://www.dentellieres.com/Reportage/R2003/Tours/tours3.ht
Someone has already contacted the seller with this suggestion. I think I
agree.
>Dear Seller. I am a lace maker but the tools concerned have nothing to do
with
>the craft. My Father used to use something like that for filling in the
old
>fashioned type of football pools(12X meant home win,away
Just because they are long and skinny doesn't make
them bobbins. They are markers of some kind. It
looks like each cube has X 1 2 / on the sides, and
each one gets turned to mark or record a series of
actions/stitches/threads/ But..What?
It's probably some manufacturing machine marker. On
A lot of the needle lace on sale in Belgium is typically white fillings
with fairly dark ecru bars/'plaits' and cordonnet. The shop price of
this type of needle lace seems to be pitched between the price of
obviously needle lace and the real handmade BL, as is the Batternburg
type of tape lace
ts that if you love a piece, prepare to spend what you
would if it were machine made... then you won't be disappointed.
Clay
Clay Blackwell
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i think its needle lace. it is too thin to be crochet. each crochet
stitch it much thicker than this even if all they did was slip stitch
crochet would still be double lipped with a center and much thicker
than needle lace stitches.
the style of lace design is needle lace. most crochet doesn'
Hello Everybody,
We had this some days before Christmas. I wasn't sure if it is
needle-lace or a special sort of crochet.
Ilske
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This looks like needlelace to me too. I see that the sale has ended.
Was that early?
Jean in Cleveland U.K. and feeling cold at 26F
On 28 Dec 2005, at 22:06, bevw wrote:
Hi everyone
I notice that the Russian lace album is now at $139.++
Here's an interesting table runner:
http://cgi.ebay.co
Personally I think it's needle lace - Point de Venise which probably
originated in Asia, and probably not very antique.
Brenda
On 28 Dec 2005, at 22:06, bevw wrote:
Hi everyone
I notice that the Russian lace album is now at $139.++
Here's an interesting table runner:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws
At 11:36 AM 2/1/2004, you wrote:
Can anyone comment on this old German book with Irische lace
3584224775 please?
Barbara Ballantyne in Sydney Australia
Like Nottingham lace from England or Quaker lace from the U.S., Plauen lace
is the premier machine made German lace. These designs are in the Iri
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