Editing Bobbin lace (section)

===Types of pillow===
[[File:Sweden 1775 lace roller pillow.jpg|thumb|"A lady sits and reads, the chambermaid comes with tea" 1775 roller pillow]]
The pillows must be firm, or otherwise the pins will wobble. The pillows were traditionally stuffed with straw, but nowadays polystyrene (styrofoam) is generally used.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lace Types: Bobbin Lace|url=https://www.lacetypes.com/bobbin.html|author=Leader, Jean E.| access-date=26 July 2022}}</ref> Pillows were historically characteristic of the different regions where lace was made, but contemporary lacemakers may have multiples styles of pillows to accomplish different lace styles and projects.

An early type of pillow can be seen in [[The Lace Maker]] by [[Caspar Netscher]]. The pillow has a wooden frame, and is slightly sloping. The lace-maker rests it on her lap. Another representation of the similar style of pillow is found in the painting [[The Lacemaker (Vermeer)|The Lacemaker]] by [[Johannes Vermeer]]. [[The Lace-Maker (Metsu)|The Lace-Maker]] portrait by [[Gabriël Metsu]] was memorialized in a [[postage stamp]].
 
The [[bolster]] or cylindrical pillow was much cheaper to make as it is just a fabric bag stuffed with straw. It was used in [[Bedfordshire lace]]. It needs a stand as it does not have a flat bottom.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pillow Lace|isbn=0-903585-10-3|author=Elizabeth Mincoff|year=1981|publisher=Ruth Bean}}</ref> Usually the bolster had the pattern pinned round the cylinder, so by turning the pillow, the lace could be as long as was needed. However, [[Maltese lace]]makers used the pillow the other way. They had a long thin pillow, which they rested against something. Then they worked the lace down the length of the pillow.<ref name=crafts>{{cite web| url=https://vassallohistory.wordpress.com/maltese-crafts/ |title=Maltese Crafts |date=2013-04-18 |publisher=VassaloMalta| access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref>

This problem (of the lace needing to be longer than the pillow) is solved in a different way by the roller pillow, which has a small roller, for working the lace, set into a larger area, where the bobbins are laid. This means that the pattern can be pinned round the roller, but the pillow has a flat bottom.

The cheapest modern pillow is domed and made of polystyrene (styrofoam). It is often called a cookie pillow, because of its shape. Another modern pillow is a block pillow, with a frame which holds covered polystyrene blocks. The blocks can be moved around as the lace progresses, to keep the lace being worked on at the centre of the pillow.

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File:Caspar Netscher 003.jpg|by [[Caspar Netscher]] an early pillow with a wooden frame
File:DDR 1959 Michel 694 Metsu.JPG|DDR 1959 Michel 694 [[Gabriël Metsu]]
File:Wybrand Hendriks (1744-1831) - The Lace Maker - FA000267 - Brighton Museum ^ Art Gallery.jpg|[[Wybrand Hendriks]] (1744-1831) - The Lace Maker - [[Brighton Museum & Art Gallery|Brighton Museum Art Gallery]]
File:Tropinin lacemaker.jpg|by [[Vasily Tropinin]]
File:'Venetian Lacemakers' by Robert Frederick Blum, Cincinnati Art Museum.JPG|by [[Robert Frederick Blum]] bolster pillows
File:Leon Augustin LHermitte (French, 1844-1925) «The old lacemaker».jpg|by [[Léon Augustin Lhermitte]] a pillow typical for [[Queyras]]
File:Stamp of Brazil - 1976 - Colnect 152243 - Lacemaker.jpeg|Stamp of Brazil - 1976 - Lacemaker and bolster pillow
File:KITLV - 10831 - Kurkdjian - Soerabaja - Women lace-makers from Palembang at the pasar malam in Surabaya - 1905-1906.tif|Woman lace-maker from Sumatra
File:Moa Island (woman sitting on mat making lace) Frank Hurley (25269461121).jpg|[[Moa Island (Queensland)|Moa Island]] (woman sitting on mat making lace)
File:Mundillo pillow.jpg|Mundillo bobbin lace roller pillow and bobbins with pricking, from Puerto Rico
File:Dentelles cogne epoca.jpg|[[Cogne]] pillows and stands
File:Snark Beaver.jpg|Victorian domed pillow in [[The Hunting of the Snark]]
File:Datteln - KF2011 - Markfelder Straße 08 ies.jpg|Modern domed pillow or "cookie pillow"
File:Malta, Lace making.jpg|Maltese bolster
File:Zestaw do wyrobu koronki klockowej Słowacja.jpg
File:Reproduction Ipswich lace pillow on display in the Smithsonian American History Museum.jpg|Ipswich bolster
File:Roller pillow.jpg|Roller pillow
File:Museu Etnològic del Castell de Guadalest, boixets.JPG|Roller pillow
File:Block pillow.jpg|Block pillow
File:Gens de l'alpe Musée dauphinois 2020 abc90.jpg|Type of lace loom in use in the Dauphinoise Alps 
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