Pins and Lacemaking
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A short review of the history of pins and their use in bobbin lacemaking, mainly in England. It compares English accounts (Wright, Freeman) with Huart's French-oriented account of pin manufacture, and describes how lacemakers decorated pins with beads, sealing wax, burr heads and bone. It includes a list of regional pin names (long toms, strivers, kingpins, limmicks, bugles, corking pins) and a dictionary-style glossary of pin-related lace terms. It ends with a reference list and a page of random notes on pins and needles contributed by members of a lace mailing list.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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