shuffering

Updated: May 15, 2025

It was the bobbins which were ornamental, and some of the older ones those made in the eighteenth century are very decorative, and now much sought after by collectors. Of such handwork Cowper wrote: "Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffering her threads about the livelong day."

Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess - Chats on Household Curios