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<p>[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 593401, member: 267"]If that's what [USER=10115]@Shwikman[/USER] has, then it's a primitive of a primitive, and possibly extra value as a make-do...</p><p><br /></p><p>There's some annoyance among connoisseurs of antique lace making tools about the proper name and use for one of these as primitive light magnifiers, when they were logically available to anyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somehow, lace making got baked in to the identification of them. No one knows who to blame, so the term stands.</p><p><br /></p><p>*THE GREAT DECEPTION - LACE MAKERS LAMPS*. */By Brian Lemin/*</p><p><br /></p><p>Lengthy but fun article on different types of lace maker lamps</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/lb_lamps.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwixlN_nt_fhAhVNgp4KHf7YCg0QFjAFegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw1lLpTF5c_JFlPZS80z-jgU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/lb_lamps.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwixlN_nt_fhAhVNgp4KHf7YCg0QFjAFegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw1lLpTF5c_JFlPZS80z-jgU" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/lb_lamps.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwixlN_nt_fhAhVNgp4KHf7YCg0QFjAFegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw1lLpTF5c_JFlPZS80z-jgU</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 593401, member: 267"]If that's what [USER=10115]@Shwikman[/USER] has, then it's a primitive of a primitive, and possibly extra value as a make-do... There's some annoyance among connoisseurs of antique lace making tools about the proper name and use for one of these as primitive light magnifiers, when they were logically available to anyone. Somehow, lace making got baked in to the identification of them. No one knows who to blame, so the term stands. *THE GREAT DECEPTION - LACE MAKERS LAMPS*. */By Brian Lemin/* Lengthy but fun article on different types of lace maker lamps [URL]https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/lb_lamps.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwixlN_nt_fhAhVNgp4KHf7YCg0QFjAFegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw1lLpTF5c_JFlPZS80z-jgU[/URL][/QUOTE]
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