Gertrude Whiting Talks About Lace Bobbins. An Essay
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A short essay by Brian Lemin (December 2010) on what Gertrude Whiting wrote about lace bobbins in her book Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework, especially the chapter "Beautiful Bobbins". It discusses her enthusiastic style, her views on the origin of bobbins and the word "sticks", and her love of spangles and beads. It also covers her descriptions of English bobbin types such as leopards, tigers, Beds fly, South Bucks and East Devon bobbins, and bobbin makers' marketing of commemorative bobbins. Lemin compares her approach with the modern classification used by Christine and David Springett.
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- Web Doc
- Date
- 2010
- Language
- English
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- 3
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