Hello All! If you found the arachne archives for afficot, you passed the Google results for several French sites that give a short explanation. Just click on the translate button. There are several references to Picardy & Patois Normand indicating that the afficot is used to hook, fix or fasten, as in "a small turned & perforated boxwood instrument in which one supports or 'fixes' one of a pair of knitting needles." That sort of makes sense. Does anyone want to bet that an item fitting this description will turn up on EBay??! As to saving files, after my computer crashed this summer & I lost all kinds of files, I invested in--less than $20--a flash drive. I used to keep my files on my hard drive because I didn't like the idea of burning a CD all the time. The flash drive has all the attributes of the old "floppy" technology--portability, plus adding & deleting files & 2gig seems like a nice round number. I just put it in my pocket when I visit friends so they can dow nload any files they'd like & I can do the same. Hope this helps some other low tech lacemakers out there! Sincerely, Susan
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