Boxes and bits
Pin Box - Richard Gravestock
If you make lace you use pins. You use a lot of pins. I have got through boxes and boxes of them over the years. However, grabing a pin as you make your lace requires some decisions - do you use a pin cusion or a pin box.
When working on a large project such as the Biggins mat that I am currently doing, you just can't keep up with the number of pins you need and spending time moving pins from a box to a pin cushion can take up precious lace time.
Shortly after starting to make lace I attended a lace day at Carshalton where, as a birthday present, my parents bought me a pin box by Richard Gravestock. The box is made from a single piece of English Yew and the touch of it has just got better over the years. Cork based so that it doesn't slip it has a hollowed out centre that lets you grab the pins easily.
When working on a large project such as the Biggins mat that I am currently doing, you just can't keep up with the number of pins you need and spending time moving pins from a box to a pin cushion can take up precious lace time.
Shortly after starting to make lace I attended a lace day at Carshalton where, as a birthday present, my parents bought me a pin box by Richard Gravestock. The box is made from a single piece of English Yew and the touch of it has just got better over the years. Cork based so that it doesn't slip it has a hollowed out centre that lets you grab the pins easily.
