I was wondering if any of you think that it's worth buying 'Kloppeln - Handbuch mit 400 Tricks und Kniffen' by Ulrike Lohr when I alrady have 'Practical Skills in Bobbin Lace' by Bridget Cook.
Practical Skills has long been my "lacemaking Bible", but I find the 400 Tricks very useful also. It covers some of the same topics but it's not just a German duplicate. Those topics that overlap get a slightly different treatment, and then there are some which do not overlap.
As for the language barrier... As both Patricia and Clay have said, the diagrams are excellent and one can do without the text, especially since the book depends on text to a much lesser degree than the practical Skills. Though I must confess that I find it annoying to have to do without; I have a little bit of (passive) knowledge of German -- just enough to figure out about half of the text, which makes the "closed" half that much more tantalizing; I can never shake off the feeling that I'm missing something vital... :)
So... when the "curiosity itch" absolutely *has* to be "scratched", I ask a friend who also has the book, and who doesn't mind practicing her German. So far, nothing that I couldn't figure out myself has proved to be *as* important as I suspected it might be.
I've found one source - Amazon Germany at Euros 40.40 (about 29 GB pounds).
Barbara Fay (also in Germany) carries it at the same price. Don't know about Amazon, but Fay doesn't charge shipping, as long as you don't mind surface mail. Since the book is relatively heavy, the shipping might make a bit of difference. Also, if you can talk 3 friends into getting the book at the same time, you'll get 10% discount; I know of lace groups here which do this with some of the more popular books.
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