Acorn Lace Bobbins

Acorn Lace Bobbins

Dave has handcrafted this pair of continental style acorn lace bobbins using birch, oak and olive green poplar woods. They are approximately 4 inches long. These beautiful bobbins are currently up for auction on Ebay.

Seven Handcrafted Grab Box Lace Bobbins

Seven Handcrafted Grab Box Lace Bobbins

Brighten up your lace pillow with these colorful bobbins!

Dave calls these “grab box bobbins” because he throws bits, pieces and ends of turnings of previous tools into a box, and while making these bobbins, he just randomly grabbed pieces out of the box to join and turn. The stems are made of birch wood and the lowers ends are joined from a variety of woods and colored celluloid rings. These are a total of seven Continental style bobbins about 4 inches long.

These "grab box bobbins" are currently up for auction on Ebay.

Hand Carved Wood Spirit Lace Bobbin

Dave made this 4 1/4 inch Continental style lace bobbin out of Walnut and Spalted Maple. The hand carved wood spirit watches over your lace work. It is initialed and dated by Dave, the maker.

Spalted Maple Lace Bobbin

Dave turned this 4 1/8 inch Continental style lace bobbin out of stabalized Spalted Maple with True Stone turquoise and vegetable ivory inserts. Spalted maple is wood that shows patterns of fungi rott. Unstable it is usually soft and "punky". This is maple wood that has been impregnated under high pressure with resin that goes into every wood cell, nook, crack and crany and is very hard and high density. This one of a kind bobbin is currently up for auction on Ebay.

Maple Lace Bobbin

This is Dave's latest bobbin!

Dave turned this 4 inch Continental style lace bobbin out of Maple, Burl Maple and purple celluloid accent rings. This bobbin is currently up for auction on Ebay.