This was my first thought too and they would each have a different tone so
they would make a very musical windchime...
Cearbhael
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Subject: Re: [lace] lace bobbins?
Then I thought the sticks can be part
That's really interesting Sue. Where did you find out about it and what would
the items have been called?
Karen in Malta
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I go with everyone who thinks they are a musical instrument. The holes to me
signify some sort of flute.
Maybe 9 of the pipes of a pan pipe:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1233465/paixiao
Sue
http://www.rubylane.com/item/370063-004620/9-Antique-Chinese-Hand-Carved
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Jane
I'm wondering if, as each would make a different sound and there are
eight notes in an octave, these are actually from a wind chime?
Me too, but then I remembered that the Chinese use the Pentatonic
scale which requires only 5 holes :(
David in Ballarat, AUS
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Antje, I had the same thought... and also thought it might be far-fetched.
There don't appear to be any holes or grooves to secure the various pieces.
But if secured on a base, perhaps they were part of an Aeolian Harp? The holes
would make each pipe create a different sound.
Clay
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But then, David, why are there different number of holes?
Antje
González, from Spain.
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At 03:16 PM 31/12/2013, Jenny Brandis wrote:
Are these actually lace bobbins? What would you use them for?
http://www.rubylane.com/item/370063-004620/9-Antique-Chinese-Hand-Carved
They look more like mini recorders, flutes or pan pipes to me
David in Ballarat, where it's now 2014!!
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At first sight, I thought they could be flutes. But after seing that the
holes are different in each stick... I think my guess is incorrect.
Then I thought the sticks can be part of a "mobile" that emits relaxing
sounds, kind of this:
http://www.maykaesoterismo.com/images/moviles/PERFUMES%20005.JP
Hi All
I agree, no way can they be lace bobbins as any of us know them...
however
In Elizabethan times in the UK bones were carved with holes slightly bigger
than this, but the item was around the same size the centre was stuffed
with sheeps wool and they were worn inside the clothing to
Hi Jenny and fellow Arachnids,
Could these be part of a game? The holes on these items go from 1 to 8 which
could be significant. I will contact the seller and suggest it to him/her.
Happy New Year full of lace making!
Joepie, East Sussex, UK
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Are these actually lace bobbins? What would you use them for?
Boy, those are strange! No way they're lacemaking bobbins, but I have no idea
what they could be for. I wonder what that red stuff is poking out of the
holes in the central one. That might be a clue to
Le 15/12/10 13:25, Brian Lemin a écrit :
> a genre of bobbins that are sort of thinnish
in my group , when we must use a lot of bobbins filled with thin
threads we tend to use thinner bobbins .. for example,middland bobbins
without the spangles ..
further more some Le puy carreaux could be ve
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Wendy Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was told at our last lace day that bone bobbins are very brittle and if
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I've got a lot of Midlands spangled bobbins, in me
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> I think the bone vs. wood (or wood vs. bone to be diplomatic ) informal
> opinion poll is interesting and yes isn't it wonderf
Hello Wendy
A lot of things break when dropped.
However, if you think of human bone, it is quite strong, yet wil break
under certain circumstances.
The same with bone bobbins. Don't drop them on a concrete floor as they
will break.
Apart from that they are pretty strong.
B.t.w. wood bobbins ca
What are cat's tail bobbins?
Karen in Malta
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I think the bone vs. wood (or wood vs. bone
Dear Daphne,
I'm still waiting for the question
David in Ballarat
Hello Fellow Lacemakers
My husband asked me to ask all of you this question.
Bone bobbins versus wood bobbins
While a lot of bobbins are turned in hard woods are not so easy to come by.
It takes a lot of time to
I think the bone vs. wood (or wood vs. bone to be diplomatic ) informal
opinion poll is interesting and yes isn't it wonderful we can have a
choice.
Clay wrote:
> I would love to be able to work with each of those very distinct styles
> of "apparatus", just for the experience.
>
I have a sor
I think where bobbins are concerned, it definitely depends on what
you're doing with them!! I think there is nothing prettier than a
lovely pillow (Toustou roller, perhaps?), filled with spangled bobbins
of every description - plain, painted, spliced, bone, etc. I also
belonged to a bone bobb
Hello Daphne my friend, and all spiders, re bone versus hard wood - I
have been told by John Cooper (bobbin maker at your lace day Daphne)
that the only bones that you can use are the leg bones so that might
make it a little bit harder to get hold of and they take a great deal of
preparation prior
I have also heard Stephen Pearce talk. If I remember correctly, thanks to
the new regulations about slaughtering animals younger he can get a maximum of
4
bobbins from one leg - if he is lucky. He buys them from a slaughterhous by
something like the ton. He has to get the bone marrow out and
Hi Alice and all
To make one bone bobbin takes one cow leg, preferably a hind one as the
bone is thicker.
Normally the thigh bone is used.
That's why they are so expensive.
Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK
www.sixpennybobbins.co.uk
Alice Howell wrote:
This question brought several thoughts
And another thing to consider is that the trees absord carbon dioxide while
they are growing and the carbon remains trapped in our bobbins. Although there
is a fair bit of waste in the cutting into blanks and turning , I should
think that about a quarter to a third of the wood ends up as a bobb
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Hello Daphne and everyone
There are some excellent Q and As at Kenn van Dieren's site:
http://www.bobbinmaker.com/faqbo
This question brought several thoughts to my mind.
Yes, trees take longer to grow than a cow, but there's a lot fewer earth
resources used in growing a mature speciman.
I understand it's harder or messier to turn bobbins from bone than wood. There
must be some reason that bone bobbins are so m
This from a lace maker whose husband hand turns both bone and wood bobbins.
He uses hardwood, which is mainly recycled from old furniture, gate
posts, mantelpieces etc.,
or obtained locally when a tree has fallen in a storm or had to be
felled because it
was diseased, or obtained via companies
Hello Daphne and everyone
There are some excellent Q and As at Kenn van Dieren's site:
http://www.bobbinmaker.com/faqbob.html
My quick answer is if bone was nicer to work with than wood, for the bobbin
maker, maybe we'd all be using more bone bobbins than wood bobbins. I prefer
wood though, any t
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but I like to
see him do that with 60 pairs, or, indeed what does he think Honiton and
Continental lacemakers do?
LOL ... does he only know we use different bobbins ? ... LOL experts !!
dominique from France
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Don't worry Jean, one of my students spotted that at the first showing and
wrote an indignant post, covering both the ivory/bone issue and this very false
idea that a profeesional lacemaker would have either the need or the time to
be looking at the spangles.
She got a slightly less condecend
Jean,
It has been a rather serious, busy morning.
I stopped to read your email about the spangles/tracking threads and the
chuckle relieved my tensions...in fact I Ha-Haed out loud.
Thanks, I needed that.
Susie Johnson
Morris, Illinois
Where the sun has finally come out to bless the day!
Jean sa
Well, that sounds like they may have checked their facts, but
misunderstood the answer.
Robin P.
Los Angeles, California, USA
(formerly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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> On 11/22/05, Jenny Barron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 11/22/05, Jenny Barron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> apparently the honiton bobbins needed to pass through the fabric!
LOL,
if a single thread can be defined as 'fabric' (?) they're close (but
no prizewinner)
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Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)
Cdn. flor
apparently the honiton bobbins needed to pass through the fabric!
jenny barron
Scotland
"C. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please tell us what was stated as the reason for no spangles on Honiton
Bobbins. I am dying of curiosity.
Thanks
Susie Johnson
Morris, IL.
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Please tell us what was stated as the reason for no spangles on Honiton
Bobbins. I am dying of curiosity.
Thanks
Susie Johnson
Morris, IL.
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Sharon
Much as I would like to say "they are worth $1.98 each, and I'll by the
whole lot" (I like bone bobbins). I think something in the order of $20
each is more like the real value. Take a look at what they are selling for
on other sites.
Do you have anything special that the money raised
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