How to wind bobbins
Pairs, with a hitch.
Step by step
- Wind clockwise onto the bobbin neck, neatly.
- Wind about three times the length of the piece.
- Wind the same again onto a second bobbin.
- Make a hitch with two loops round your finger.
- Wind extra onto the worker pair.
Watch
Bobbin Lace: How to wind a bobbin (4:52)
By Myrtle and Eve · Open on YouTube
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