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Updated: May 11, 2025
Then she knocked at the door, and cried, 'Fine wares to sell! Snowdrop looked out at the window, and said, 'Good day, good woman! what have you to sell? 'Good wares, fine wares, said she; 'laces and bobbins of all colours. 'I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of body, thought Snowdrop, as she ran down and unbolted the door.
The nature of the work permits the employment of operatives under sixteen only in the spinning room; the girls, many of them older than sixteen, mend the broken ends of the yarn at the spinning frames, and the boys remove the full bobbins and fix empty ones in their stead. The possible percentage of workers under sixteen in a spinning mill varies from thirty-five to forty-five.
It is inconceivable how fast the bobbins move under their hands; and they seem to bestow so little attention on their work, that it looks more like the amusement of idleness than an effort of industry.
As the reel rotates, the yarn from these 24 bobbins is wound round, say, 6 in. apart, and when the reel has made 120 revolutions, or 120 threads at each place from each bobbin, there will be 24 separate cuts of yarn on the reel.
His pole, his axis, his center, his all is Paris or even less Parisian manners, the taste of the day, fashion. Thanks to this organized fetishism, we have millions of copies of one single original pattern; a whole people moving together like bobbins in the same machine, or the legs of a single corps d'armee.
Also on my father's behalf my uncles conducted the lonely saw-mill that ate and ate into the Great Wood and yet never got any farther. There might be seen machinery for making spools with water-driven lathes, which turned these articles, variously known as "bobbins" and "pirns," literally off the reel by the thousand. It was a sweet, birch-smelling place and my favourite haunt on all holidays.
In England we distinguish by the name Point, a peculiarly rich and curiously wrought lace formerly very fashionable, but now scarcely ever worn except in Court costume. In this sort of lace the pattern is, we believe, worked with the needle, after the ground has been made with the bobbins.
The warp yarns are starched, dried and beamed simultaneously on to a weaver's beam. The last method is the most extensively adapted; but we shall describe the four processes briefly, and in the order mentioned. The ends of the threads from these bobbins are drawn through the eyes of two leaves of the "heck," and all the ends tied together.
"Of course they wouldn't have tried climbing up here to get out," queried Helen. "Of course not!" exclaimed Ann. "What for?" "No," said Bobbins. "They kept straight ahead and so will we." In five minutes, however, when they stopped, whispering, in a little chamber, Ann suddenly seized her companions and commanded them to hold their breath! "I hear something," she whispered.
Her deft white fingers knew how to throw, change, catch and pick up those bobbins so nimbly, so swiftly; she stuck her pins, which were to give the thread its lie and form, so accurately and surely; and, under her hand, the lace grew slowly and imperceptibly into a light thread network, grew with the leaves and flowers of her geraniums and phlox and the silent course of time.
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