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Mark Atchison, the Plimoth Blacksmith, was busy during the Plimoth project hand making each lace spangle for us. After making over 800 spangles for the jacket, he kept going. If you had the chance to see how laborious it is to make such a little metal tag - it is a labor of love. It is a two step process with the tools he made himself in the forge. Previous to that, we have to draw silver into a rod, electroplate it with gold and then roll it multiple times to make a flat ribbon with the appropriate period roller marks. Sometimes we even get the manufacturing defects of a little divot in the bottom from the previous cut - fun to see how those artifacts actually occurred in history.
Mark handed me a small quantity of excess spangles to make available to the public this summer. Maybe you have a little project of your own that you want to add lace to - and a few spangles would be the icing. Or maybe you want to have just a few to keep as a memento. I don't have that many and we need to encourage Mark to keep making them, so don't delay!
I am offering them in a set of three - one nearly perfect and two with the artifacts of manufacture that allowed us to deduce the process. The set of 20 is for use making lace. Depending on the lace pattern that you use, this set could make as much as 15"-20" of lace. For the Laton Jacket lace, it would cover almost seven motifs or about 8".
Size: 1/8" x 3/16" each
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