Domestic Carpet Bowls

The best known name in this type of carpet bowlBandabowls arethepremier quality carpet bowls and have been made by the same family firm since 1930.

Non Bias (Scottish) Carpet bowls

This version of the game is played on a raised bed on a 24ft x 3ft carpet. The picture below taken from a 1936 catalogue gives an idea of what the game looks like.

Bias Carpet Bowls

There does seem to be a slight Northern – Southern hemisphere divide when it come to the size of the bowls used for this game. However the entry shown below from a 1935 Bowls catalogue seems to suggest that ‘Miniature Bowls for indoor bowling on small rinks’ were made to 3 15/16 inches. That this game was popular in New Ze

Shortmat Bowls

Short Mat bowls is not the recent phenomenon, that many of you may think it is. Don Durham of Arnold Wyer tells me that they were selling felt carpets for short mat back in the 1950’s. In fact there was quite a strong following in the North Staffordshire area and the first President of the E.S.M.B.A.., Mr. G. Dicks was greatly involved in that re

Indoor Rink Width

I wrote an article sometime ago about the bias on bowls, which also covered the testing of same. Bowlers will now all be aware that after many years World Bowls Limited together with the manufactures and testers have introduced (2002) a new “Working Reference Bowl (WRB)” in conjunction with the standardisation

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