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EVERY BOBBIN TELLS A STORY

This site started as a way to catalogue my bobbins and it turned into a facebook group and a whole website.

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Back in 2014 I started to take photos of my bobbins and make folders on my laptop for each maker or painter.  Then in 2019 I started this site.

During lockdown, I was talking with Jo Buckberry and we decided to create a spreadsheet we could share and see how many modern bobbin turners and painters we could identify as we felt that this knowledge was being lost with the passing of so many lacemakers and bobbin makers / painters.  After a few months, that spreadsheet became a facebook group.  
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We thought that we might get around 50 or 60 UK lacemakers involved.  We now have over three thousand members
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2 years later, when we had enough photos to get going with, I created a website to hold the information we had gathered. 

As every one of the entries I had here now exists on the website, during May 2025 I retired the bobbin pages from this website but you can find all of the information on my bobbins and the 3k members of our facebook group over on the FTM website leaving this site to be the home of my book blog with information on all of the over 400 books I own on lacemaking and my podcasts and blogs.
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If every bobbin tells a story, then each bead does too.  The bobbins below are by Heather Power and the cover cloth on the pillow was a present from my husband when we visited the Kant Centre in Bruges.

The Cloisonné and Italian evil eye centre beads shown here are all from the Bead Shop, London, which used to be on Neal Street.

The faceted beads are all from Creative Beadcraft 
The green square beads on the Evil Eye spangle were from Tuffnel Glass.


Heather Power bobbins
Heather Power bobbins
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  • Home
  • Book Blog
  • The Lace Notes
  • Podcast
  • The Christmas Lace Notes
  • Want To Make Lace?
    • First Things First
    • Choosing a Pillow
    • Bobbins >
      • Bobbins
      • Bobbin Materials
      • Spangling
    • Tools, notions and beads >
      • Boxes and Bits
      • Bruges - chocolate and lace
  • So Who is the lacebee?
  • Every bobbin tells a story
  • My Lace
    • big projects
    • modern
    • traditional
    • miniature
  • Freebies and Whatnots
    • Bits and Pieces
    • Where shall we go next?
    • Local Groups and Support
    • Arachne
  • Contact Me