Betsy's Mid 19th C. English Turned Bone Bedfordshire Lace Making Bobbin with Glass Beads 18th century lettering with a hole near the

with a hole near the top for hanging from a nail

and with what I believe is a lotus flower to her left

one small hole in the cloth below the top left tree

I love the effort put into detailing the facade

I then opened the box to discover the whetstone inside--making this quite the useful box

Betsy's Mid 19th C. English Turned Bone Bedfordshire Lace Making Bobbin with Glass Beads 18th century lettering with a hole near theI've become interested in traditional lace making processes and tools the process of making bobbin lace, especially, I find amazing, and have included a photo of a lace bobbin like this in action. I'm always struck by how modern looking the loops of colorful glass beads (functioning as weights) found at the ends of British lace bobbins like of this one seem, though I know this one, made of bone, dates to the 19th c. It was personalized for "Betsy"