The sound of wooden bobbins ... a bobbin, the snowflakes tightly fasten to the drawing, like the permanent frosting you see on windows in February. Master classes in weaving real Vologda lace ...

Inside the machine are 4360 bobbins in two rows each containing ... John Heathcoat patented a 'bobbin-net' lace machine in 1809. These were installed in his mill in Loughborough, Leicestershire.

The traditional lace can only be made with Honiton lace bobbins which have a pointed end. These bobbins are likely to have been made in Devon around 1980. Doreen had them painted in the ...