ome further notes on Madame Goubaud's writings on point lace.

These patterns were included, without any acknowledgement to Madame 
Goubaud, in /Beeton's Book of Needlework /along with patterns for 
tatting, crochet, knitting, netting, embroidery, Guipure d'art, berlin 
work, pillow lace and lace stitches.

/Beeton's Book of Needlework /was published in 1870 by Ward Lock and 
Tyler, Great Britain which was after Madame Goubaud's crochet books were 
published in 1868 and 1869.

I compared the copies of Madame Goubaud's patterns with those in 
/Beeton's Book of Needlework / in the British library.

The Goubaud's and Beeton's were friends and business associates.

Madame Goubaud and her husband produced the prestigious French fashion 
magazine/Le Moniteur de la Mode/ in Paris.

Samuel Beeton indicated in the preface to/Beeton's book of needlework 
/that the best attainable workers had carried out his  late wife's wish 
to have a needlework book along the same lines as her classic one on 
household management (Isabella had died five years before).  He also 
wrote that point lace had recently become popular and the patterns would 
help ladies to reproduce antique laces.

This is quoted from p 18 of my book/Mademoiselle Riego and Irish crochet 
lace/ 2007

Barbara Ballantyne in sunny Sydney

On 12/06/2017 4:15 AM, jeria...@aol.com wrote:
> Thank you,  Jenny.  Tess did a tremendous amount of  work.  Books may be
> easier to scan today than when she took on this  project for us, making so
> many out-of-copyright books available - free - to  anyone with a computer.  
> Her
> set-up meant standing for hours and hours and  lifting the books
> continuously.  If you have seen heavy original books  like the Ricci set, you 
> know it
> had to be back-breaking work that required skill  so fragile pages and
> bindings would not be damaged.
>   
> A bit of information about this specific publication to which Jenny has
> referred, "Battenberg and Point Lace Book":  It was re-published by  Lacis in
> San Francisco in 1987, and may still be available.
>   
> Two copies are kept in my library.  The version Tess scanned  is under
> Priscilla, and the Lacis version is under the author's name:   Nellie Clarke
> Brown.
>   
> A teaching moment:  There are several ways to search for  what has been
> said about this book:  Battenberg, Nellie Clarke Brown,  Lacis, Point Lace,
> Priscilla, and by the book's title.  People who are  interested in braids may
> find the contents useful, because tapes  are similar to braids.  And, of
> course, these laces are made by a  threaded needle and are considered to be
> embroidery.
>   
> Jeri Ames in Maine USA
> Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
> --------------------------------------------------------
>   
> In a message dated 6/11/2017 2:24:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> je...@brandis.com.au writes:
>
> It was  only when I was comparing the 2 sites work that  I really
> appreciated
> just how much work Tess Parish had done removing all the  background colour
> from the scans, thus making it much more  readable.
>
> To see what I mean, compare these 2 copies of the same  scan
>
> https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/archive_003.pdf
> http://archive.org/stream/priscillabattenb00brow#page/n5/mode/2up
>
> Jenny  Brandis
>
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