I would like to recommend that we ask OIDFA (which has leadership from the
major lacemaking countries of Europe) to set up a Study Group to wrestle with
the problem and develop a standard color diagramming system that will work with
all laces and be "reflected" in new books and computer web sites. It should
be based on the most sensible adaptation, starting with the foundation Belgian
Color Code.
You really don't think small, do you? :) I think it's a spectacular idea (literally <g>) and long overdue. More and more lace books are moving towards diagrammatical explanations of patterns and away from the verbal ones, to make the books accessible to a larger audience without incurring the costs of translating pages and pages into many languages (and how do you choose *which* languages -- other than the original -- to include?). If UCC became a world-wide standard for all new publications and widely publicised, then the same book would be accessible to *everyone*... I'd think it would be in the publishers' interest to push for such standard.
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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