Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . -other, a sister had gathered a group ofseven to ten year olds nearer the stove— 64 BOBBINS OP BELGIUM a company of Fra Angelico angels theylooked, as I bent over them to watch theirlittle hands. They placed brass pins inthe holes pricked in the pattern to holdthe rather coarse thread, twisted first twothreads to the right, then two to the left,then braided them to form the familiarhexagon of the Point de Paris they reached the pattern, a mostsimple conventional one, other bobbinshad to be brou
Bobbins of Belgium; a book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages . -other, a sister had gathered a group ofseven to ten year olds nearer the stove— 64 BOBBINS OP BELGIUM a company of Fra Angelico angels theylooked, as I bent over them to watch theirlittle hands. They placed brass pins inthe holes pricked in the pattern to holdthe rather coarse thread, twisted first twothreads to the right, then two to the left,then braided them to form the familiarhexagon of the Point de Paris they reached the pattern, a mostsimple conventional one, other bobbinshad to be brought into play. They heldthe threads always from the top of thecushion vertically toward them, with theseam edge of the lace to the left and theborder to the right. Even these babieshad from 50 to 200 bobbins to keep inmind, rather long beech-wood bobbins,these for Point de Paris, with the threadtightly wound at the top, and a consid-erable pear-shaped bulge at the lace is supposed to require a par-ticular bobbin, especially suited to theweight of thread employed, but workers.
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