Lacemakers Lamps
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
An article by Brian Lemin on the lighting used by bobbin lace makers, tracing the history of candles and rush lights and describing candle stools with water-filled magnifying flasks. It covers regional variants (English, Danish, Swiss, New England) and the custom of sharing light by rank around the stool. The author argues that the glass 'lace makers lamps' sold by antique dealers are really oil lamps rather than magnifiers, and closes with an annotated bibliography of lace and bobbin references.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »