Unknown Makers - Do you know these bobbins?
Unknown mother and baby
Sometimes, normally at the end of a lace day you buy something and didn't quite get the supplier's name. If you have any idea who the makes or the bobbins shown on this page are I would really like to know. Please email me at [email protected] with any help you can give me.
The mother and baby and captured ball bearings were bought at the Uxbridge Lace Day in 1993. Always one to spurn superstition I bought the mother and baby bobbin. The square beads at the top of the spangle are from Tuffnell Glass.
Superstition? Well, everyone was telling me that you should only buy a mother and baby bobbin (that's a bobbin where a small bobbin is held captive in the main bobbin's body), ... sorry ... you should only buy a mother an baby bobbin if you have children.
Would a very large cat count?
After all, you are talking about the woman who got married in green and went to the wedding with her husband to be. Yes, we throw biscuits in the face of superstition and blow raspberries, with wiggly fingers, at fate!
The mother and baby and captured ball bearings were bought at the Uxbridge Lace Day in 1993. Always one to spurn superstition I bought the mother and baby bobbin. The square beads at the top of the spangle are from Tuffnell Glass.
Superstition? Well, everyone was telling me that you should only buy a mother and baby bobbin (that's a bobbin where a small bobbin is held captive in the main bobbin's body), ... sorry ... you should only buy a mother an baby bobbin if you have children.
Would a very large cat count?
After all, you are talking about the woman who got married in green and went to the wedding with her husband to be. Yes, we throw biscuits in the face of superstition and blow raspberries, with wiggly fingers, at fate!
I very rarely buy raffle tickets - I have a strange thing about gambling in any form so I normally prefer to 'donate' the money to the group rather than buy the tickets. Every now and again I can't get out of it and I buy a couple of tickets and on this occasion in 2005 I won a pair of bobbins which are apparantly Tasmanian Black Wattle. I know this because it says so on the bobbin. See, sometimes I'm quite intelligent!
The spangles have a kookaburra and a bilby on them which my husband found on ebay from a supplier of sterling silver charms.
Dangly spangles can be an issue with sewings but it's amazing how many things you can find to make that don't need sewings.
If the idea of spangles and bobbins are to make up a picture of your life then these two bobbins and their spangles who what has been the best bit of my life for the past 7 years. Each time I get these out I touch a little bit of what makes my husband the man he is ... Australia.
The spangles have a kookaburra and a bilby on them which my husband found on ebay from a supplier of sterling silver charms.
Dangly spangles can be an issue with sewings but it's amazing how many things you can find to make that don't need sewings.
If the idea of spangles and bobbins are to make up a picture of your life then these two bobbins and their spangles who what has been the best bit of my life for the past 7 years. Each time I get these out I touch a little bit of what makes my husband the man he is ... Australia.
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Yes, I rescue lace equipment from the depths of ebay. That's probably why I have 39 lace pillows apart from my teaching ones.
These honiton bobbin are a beautiful eau de nil colour with snowdrops and hellebores on them. The touch of red from the holly berries and rose hips just lift the painting. They are unsigned. |