[lace-chat] Cleaning Antique Bobbins/Spangles

2005-06-30 Thread Shirlee Hill
Recently I was lucky enough to purchase, sight unseen, a group of antique bone bobbins. There are quite a few Haskins bobbins in the group. One in particular is an amazing mother & babe made by Joseph Haskins. It is in almost mint condition! The only problem with it is it has some sort of so

Re: [lace-chat] Cleaning Antique Bobbins/Spangles

2005-06-30 Thread Carol Adkinson
Hi Shirlee, I use all my bobbins, be they antique or modern, so I have no qualms about changing the spangling beads!I *do* have a stash of old beads, mainly square-cuts, which I use to re-spangle the antique bobbins - and to clean the beads I have been known to put several at a time in a tea i