Lace pillows
Bobbin cushions are firmly padded, roll-shaped (especially in Germany) or flat, almost square (especially in France and Belgium) working documents for the manual lace-making technique . The castors can lie loosely in a frame, but there are also models in which a rotatable roller is embedded in a padded worktop. A large-scale lace pillow for extensive work is mainly from the Erzgebirge known clapper bag . Several people can work at the same time on the vertically hanging cushion.
A template with the pre-drawn lace pattern , the so-called lace or pattern letter , is stretched around the cylindrical lace cushion so that the beginning and end of a pattern set meet. Puncture points marked on the template indicate the binding and crossing points of the threads to be interwoven. Bobbin pins or pins inserted at these points hold the stitches formed in place until their position is fixed. As the work progresses, the needles are pulled out of the finished point and inserted into the next markings.
literature
- Jutta Lammèr: Lexicon of handicrafts . Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1983, ISBN 3-473-42363-7 , p. 156.
- Lace making. In: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon. 14th edition. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig / Berlin / Vienna 1894–1896, p. 426.