Lynn, I'm sort of writing this as outraged of Bicester and in support of you. My husband's initial reaction when I read your post to him was that you should contact the organisers of the lace day to raise the issue with them but as I started to type I realised that it would have been difficult to question the lady you met without it feeling like the third degree. She probably bought the pattern in good faith. When I started making lace my teacher would happily copy patterns and charge you her students for doing so - saying that she had bought the book for the group and without us paying for the pattern she couldn't recoup the money to buy new books. I wouldn't pay - I believed that buying the book opened up a whole collection of patterns and where it was a single pattern then the author of the pattern deserved the money. For very old, out of print patterns then I have bought second hand as first choice (because the author would have got royalties from the original sale) or as a last choice, borrowed from the library on occasions. One lace fair I went to, a friend was looking at a pattern and I was looking at another and she said we should buy one each and photocopy them. They were only 50p. I bought both. I do understand that some people have limited funds to buy books and patterns but with patterns anything from 50p to £3 it's not that expensive to get a pattern to make. Even new books can be as little as £8 - let's be honest, it's the equipment that is the investment not the pattern and the thread. When I started, I gave my parents a list of the books I really wanted and I got one for easter, one for my birthday and one for Christmas - other family members quickly took up this plan too so I built up a fantastic library quickly over 2 - 3 years. OK - outrage over!!! Hubby still thinks you should have found out who sold it and gone and broken their windows!! Kind Regards
Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: Lynn Turner <l...@churchmeadowcrafts.com> To: lace <lace-c...@dont.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, 4 December 2011, 20:42 Subject: [lace-chat] photocopying I was a supplier at Cranmore this weekend and was approached by a lady with a query about my Continental Lacemaker chart. The chart she showed me was my pattern but certainly not bought from me, it was badly copied and had a plain front with a photocopy of the photograph from my pattern. I know swapping of patterns does go on but this lady had bought the pattern from someone at a lace day in Essex. I'm not sure what I can do about it at this time but please be aware if you are buying cross stitch or lace patterns that they are genuine patterns. Lynn Turner www.churchmeadowcrafts.com for all your lacemaking supplies To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
