I'm interested in working on some Bayeux lace. I'm currently living in Guam
and have no teacher resources here. I have the book, Dentelle de Bayeux,
La...Fouriscot, Mick & Salvador, Myl&eagrave;ne... 1999...French... 45p... [...]
a book on Bayeaux, Bayeux Lace, Yesterday's Lace for Today... Nobecourt,
Maria-Catherine& Potin, Janine... 1990... English,French... 78p... Progression
from beginning through advanced... 17:4,Sum96-97.
Does anyone know anything about this book?
I have both those books. The Fouriscot one has nicer patterns but the Nobecourt one is, by far (IMO, anyway), better as a "starter" book for Bayeux. The core of it had been written, originally, as a teaching manual, so it's progressive (as to difficulty level) in the arrangement of patterns, and teaches something new in each one. There are a lot of technique "tips", both in the introductory section and with each pattern. The diagrams are quite clear and, having fewer colours than the Fouriscot book, easier to comprehend at a glance. It may not, OTOH, give you *all* the techniques needed to execute the patterns in the Fouriscot book -- the more complex of those would still be a bit of a "stretch".
Would it be worth the price of Priority Mail to get it here? Media mail takes anywhere from 2-3 months to arrive here in Guam.
Depending on how desperate you are time-wise... And how interested you are in the technique... Personally, I'd *buy* the book (so I'd have it forever, rather than for just 2 weeks), but buy it from Barbara Fay, and have it shipped via surface mail. It is "slow boat to China", but the shipping is free (you can pay and have it air-shipped; she charges only what's *over* the surface mail. I've never used that way, but it's available)
The book is listed in the current ('03) catalogue at 32 Euro; not cheap given the state of the $, but, if you borrowed it from IOLI, you'd be spending close to half of it in shipping it back and forth from US, and then you'd only have it for a short time -- not quite enough to *learn* much...
Are there any other books/resources that you would recommend?
None that I know of. Polychrome de Courseulles ones are the closest. But they *build on* the Bayeux techniques, rather than *teach* them... And they're hard to find...
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