From the home of Mrs. H.N. LordA pair of wooden lace making bobbins.bobbins, sewing equipment

When lead pipes, traditionally used by plumbers for water and gas, were bent, the lead would often distort. The plumbers bobbins were pushed through the pipe to remove the distortion. The brass bobbin coule be opened to attach a rope which could be pulled through the pipe. Plumber's bobbins - 25 wooden bobbins of various sizes, and one small brass bobbin which has hole through the middle and screws open into two halves. Wood for the bobbins was often chosen for its hardness. On the brass bobbin: "REG 431478 MOI JML"

Taken from Collins Mill around 1984.Painted rectangular sheet metal sign reads "SHORT Mule Weft Bobbins ONLY". The sign is painted on one side and has a white background with a green strip around border.SHORT(red paint) Mule Weft Bobbins (black paint) ONLY (red paint)collins mill, signs, textile industry, wool, bobbins, weft

Archimedes drills, incorporate a bobbin sliding up and down a spiral shaft to bore a hole. Spiral-bit augers were precursors to modern drills, whose bits cleared the hole of chips as the user drilled. Some of the most beautiful Archimedean drills appear in English tool auctions replete with brass, rosewood and even ivory. A steel hand drill with fine bit and sliding bobbin'HOBBIES' on top of handletools, metalwork, woodwork, carpentry, early settlers, pioneers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, cheltenham, blacksmiths, bobbins, augers, hand drills, marples william

Bobbin made lace with needle made flower centres. Use: Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging. Sample

A small, manual bobbin winder on wooden baseA small, manual bobbin winder on wooden base.yarn production handicrafts, yarn production, handicrafts

A wooden bobbin holder associated with the "Beehive" manual sock knitting machineA wooden bobbin holder, circular base with a hollow round pole attached at centre of the base and narrowing at the top.knitting textile machinery machine knitting, hosiery, knitting, textile machinery, machine knitting

These bobbins were given to donor by her aunt and were part of the set on which the donor learned to make Nine Pin edging when she was 8 years old. (approx 1911) 2 wooden lacemaker bobbins, decorated on ends with coloured glass beads attached with wire. Bobbin one has 4 red beads, 4 clear beads, 2 black beads and 1 white bead with green and red colour band. Bobbin two has 2 brown beads, 2 blue beads, 1 black bead and 1 clear bead. Bobbins have shaped and turned shafts. bobbins lace, wood turning, hand craft

Advertising posters for unbreakable condenser bobbins, produced by Hearl Heaton and Sons Ltd.The New Patent / UNBREAKABLE / CONDENSER / BOBBIN / The Result of 100 Years' Experience. / Perfectly Simple! / Simply Perfect! / Over / Half-a-Million / in use. / Because it is the BEST / it costs a few pence / more than some others - / BUT it saves SHILLhearl heaton and sons ltd

The spinning wheel was owned by Amy Penfold (donor Jan Dawson's mother) who presumably purchased the spinning wheel in the 1930s at an antiques auction. Amy lent the spinning wheel to her friends who spun (as Amy could not spin herself) In Yass, New South Wales during the early years of the Second World War. Amy's friends would spin lightly scoured semi greasy wool worked into yarn and knitted into particularly warm and water-resistant socks for sailors on minesweepers serving during the Second World War. Jan received the wheel in the early 1960s after her mother past away at which time the wheel was no longer operable. When Jan came to live in Melbourne, she sought the assistance of Spinners and Handweavers who assisted her in creating a new bobbin and restored the broken pieces of the wheel back into working order which we find it in today. With the loom are three bobbins. One bobbin is attached to the loom while of the two loose bobbins; one is a reproduction and one is an original. From these two the differences in construction can be observed. Large 12 spokes pinning wheel finished in dark tinted varnish on wood. Ornate upright posts.Additional two bobbins. One original and slightly damaged other is a reproduction and in excellent condition.

Fives images of the workshop machinery used by the Queensland Industrial Institute for the Blind in the manufacture of various products. 1 - Pitched brooms being made by Stewart Jewell (left) and Jack Dollier (right). 2 - Unknown worker at a basket station making a cane basket, surrounded by finished examples. 3 - Snowy Willis oversees the operation of the machine that bores holes into brush heads. 4 - Unknown worker operating a coir matting machine. There were apparently 10 such machines in use at the time this image was taken. 5 - Snowy Willis checking the bobbins being filled from a giant spool. In the background are empty bobbins stacked against walls and filled bobbins on spool holders. 6 - Roy Anderson checks the wadding on a recently filled mattress, whilst in the background Ellen McDevitt uses a portable sewing table to sew the ends of a filled mattress.6 x B/W photographs of the workshop machinery used by the Queensland Industrial Institute for the BlindC2-657: 2, Brush shop - pitch set brooms being made by blind workers C2-664: Basket shop - some of the various types of baskets made C2-654: Snowy Willis. Brush shop - a semi automatic brush stock boring machine in operation. C2-666: Matting shop - one of the ten coir matting looms in use. 1960. C2-659: Matting shop - bobbin winder and bobbin bank. C2-655: 15. 2 col wide. Bed shop wadding a fibre mattress. Also showing special sewing machine and movable table used in sewing the mouths of filled mattresses.queensland industrial institute for the blind, stuart jewell, jack dollier, snowy willis, roy anderson, ellen mcdevitt

WERTHEIM sewing machine transverse shuttle. Hand operated with thread winding attachment, uprights for reels of thread, tension adjuster and sewing mechanism. Serial no. S6005404|Handles folds into wheel for storage. Has a metal base with pearl insert on outer edge. originally painted black with gold scroll work - base is hinged to a wooden base. Wooden veneered cover stored separately. Aluminium label on body of machine with 'Werthiem Frankfort' around a figure sitting - all embossed.Wertheim Frankfort|Pes. Gesch and emblem on bobbin boxtextile machinery, sewing, domestic items

The Fashion & Design collection of Kew Historical Society includes examples of textiles dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the textiles, were used as items of clothing, others as items of household decoration, or simply as travel souvenirs. These textiles were created both domestically and internationally. Predictably with the growth of an ethnically and culturally more diverse community in Kew after the Second World War, textiles, clothing and objects in the collection inevitably reflected this diversity. This form of bobbin lace is made in Malta. It is a guipure style of lace. Maltese lace is worked as a continuous width tape lace on a tall, thin, upright lace pillow called a "Trajbu" and the Bobbins are called "Combini" . Bigger pieces are made of two or more parts sewn together. Lace made in Malta was originally needle lace, from the 16th to the 19th century, when the economic depression in the islands nearly led to the extinction of lacemaking there. But in the mid 1800s, Lady Hamilton Chichester sent lacemakers from Genoa to Malta. They used the old needle lace patterns and turned them into bobbin lace, which was quicker. It was not long after its introduction that the Maltese lace developed its own style from Genoese lace. Maltese lace was shown at The Great Exhibition of 1851 and it became popular in Britain. The style was copied by lacemakers in the English Midlands, and it was one of the sources for Bedfordshire lace. Characteristics of Maltese lace. Maltese lace usually has the following characteristics which are useful for identification. It is usually made from cream silk. There is often the 8 pointed Maltese cross as part of the pattern, worked in whole or cloth stitch.The pattern may also have closely worked leaves known as “wheat ears” or “oats”. These are plump and rounded in shape, rather than the long narrow leaves of other types of bobbin lace. Camisole, made of silk thread Maltese bobbin lace that is constructed of lengths of lace forming two rectangles with a hole for the neck. Shows the characteristic Maltese cross and wheat ears. Fabric is made of tape lace joined togethercamisoles, maltese lace, bodices

Use: Fashion accessory. This cap was worn by the donor's great aunt, trimmed with velvet bowsBobbin lace cap

Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

Very fine old Mechlin lace used as a costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

Fine old Mechlin lace used as a costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

Very fine old Flemish lace. Use - Fashion trimming or ecclesiasticalBobbin lace Flouncing

A light weight lace used for costume trimmingBobbin lace flouncing

Use - Domestic household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic - household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace insertion

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace edging.

Use: Domestic. Household trimmingBobbin lace insertion

Bobbin lace insertion

Use: Costume trimmingBobbin lace edging

Use: Large silk collar. Fashion item.Bobbin lace collar