| Original Message: Re: A precious number of beads from lace bobbins were used for 1920's necklaces! |
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Hi Frederick Yes - these kinds of necklaces do appear from time to time, and tend to use the lampmade English-made 'squiggle beads' more often than others, although I've seen all types of lace beads on them. The bead spangle on East Midlands style bobbins was almost certainly invented from c.1760's onwards in England as an anti-swivelling device to prevent previously unspangled types of bobbins overtwisting (or untwisting) and spoiling thread which was now machine-spun instead of hand-spun. The entire question of when spangles were invented is bound up in the introduction of machine-spun threads in the English Industrial Revolution. They also act as an added weight (on slim lightweight English bobbins) to keep the threads straight and under tension. Although historically most of them were made in the usual European glass beadmaking centres of Venice, Bohemia, France, etc., many others were actually made in England itself, including 'square cuts' and 'English squiggle' beads (see image). Cheers Carole All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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