I switched to work with hanging bobbins.
Thus I don't need to turn my hands any more.
Moreover your work comes closer to your eyes without lifting your hands or bending your back.
I covered the back of my cookie-pillow with non-skid,
as well as something like a standing picture frame.
These two layers can keep the pillow at any desired height
and the pillow can be turned as easily as if it lays on the table.
Wrap the non-skid also around the foot of the frame
so it doesn't slip of the edge of the table.
Note that the drawing shows the bobbins half outside the pillow. Thus you get your fingers more easily behind them.
This method works fine for tape-laces like Russian and Rosaline.
For delicate laces like honiton even the unspangled English bobbins
are to heavy.
For continious lace I switched to a cradle pillow but kept everything else the same. The many bobbins then can be stacked.
Side-view non-skid (red in drawing)  cradle pillow  | In stead of using larger bobbins Lemmonade straws can protect the yarns from your always slightly dirty hands. A spiral keeps the bobbins sorted, and easy to move when the pillow should turn.  Make a flexible coil that adapts to the situation? Wind wire round some stick, the ends round a nail. No wire cutter? Repeat bending until it breaks. |
German suppliers also sell Kloeppelkaemme (Klöppelkämme). See also the strip with beads on Klöppelgruppe Filder.
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