Bobbins Collection

Malta - Lacemaking
Lacemaking in Malta during WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Elderly woman making lace in an open doorway
An elderly woman making lace in the open doorway of her home, with a large number of bobbins on display. Date: 20th century

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Carpet Factory (Usak)
Armenian or Greek women at work at a carpet factory at Usak, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. They sit on the carpet they are slowly producing

A Loughshore Cottage near Maghery, Winding Bobbins on Old Wh
A Loughshore Cottage near Maghery, Winding Bobbins on an Old Wheel - a woman outside a thatched cottage with spinning wheel and three girls. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Armagh: Maghery)

Advert, Atwater Kent Model 30 Radio. 1926

Sewing items, including needles, pins, scissors and thread
Sewing items: needles, pins, scissors, thread, chalk, thimble and tape measure. Date: circa 1940

Advert, Pfaff Sewing Machines. 1897

Woollen Manufacturing - Slubbing Machine or Billy. Date: 1811

Oldest lace-worker in bucks 1904
Old lady sitting with a pillow with bobbins and pins. Date: 1904

Bobbin-net Machine at a Nottingham Lace Factory 1843
Bobbin-net lace making machine, invented by John Heathcoat in the 1750s. Date: 1843

Cannes, France - Boulevard de la Croisette
Manufacture des Gobelins - a tapestry factory located in Paris, France, at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near the Les Gobelins metro station in the 13th arrondissement

Lace-Making in the town of Bruges, Belgium 1907
Mid-aged women working in their homes in Fladers on pillow lace-making. Working lots of hours for not much pay from seven in the morning till ten at night

Bedfordshire Lace School. Date: circa 1905

Sinhalese Lace Maker - Sri Lanka
A very attractive hand-coloured postcard showing a Sinhalese Lace Maker. The Sinhalese (Sinhala, Sinhala Jathiya, Hela or Sinhale) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka

Silk Manufacture in China. 19th century

French Lacemaker working on a large-scale piece. Date: circa 1910s

Lace making
A Buckinghamshire lace maker of the Old Bucks point lace at work, placing a pin into the parchment pattern. The picture shows also the hanging bunch of bobbins

Malta - Inset souvenir views in wonderfully garish colours. The Musta Church, The Public Library on Queens Square, Valletta

Bruges, Belgium - Women making lace
Lacemaking at Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 1910s

Young girl making lace on the pavement
A young girl making lace on the pavement with a large number of bobbins

A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly

Lace-Making / Malta / Coates
Lace making at Fontana on Gozo, Maltese archipelago

Pyne - Worsted Winder
A WORSTED WINDER The female figure... is employed in winding worsted upon bobbins, preparatory to its being placed ypon the loom, to weave into lace

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