Poll - How many beads in your spangle and how heavy do you like your spangle?

One of the joys of lace bobbins are matching your spangles to your bobbins when you use East Midlands bobbins.

For many of us, when we first started to make lace we made our spangles big and heavy and our threads were long.  As we became more experienced, we lightened the spangles and made them smaller.

Spangles help in two ways, they add tension from their weight and they add stablity from the flatness of the spangle that stops your bobbins rolling on your pillow.

When teaching I tend to offer my students slightly heavier spangles to start with, because of this.

Over the late May bank holiday we ran two polls on the Find the Maker FB group asking about size and weight of spangles and these are the results.

How many beads in your spangle? (106 responses)

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How heavy do you like your spangle? (67 responses)