Dear Jenny on the lookout for old books for us)-- Thanks so much for spotting that book. These sorts of things seem to have been put out by various thread-making companies at that time: we've seen others, but probably not as nice.
The thing is, we can get so many books through InterLibrary Loan here in the US that we have not had to buy any. Kind friends also have been lending me books to scan, so at the moment I'm pretty well booked ahead. It is really helpful, however, to have you and others keep your eagle eyes open on our behalf. I welcome suggestions, even if I don't get to locating and scanning them right away. I do have a request: if anyone has access to old copies of the Needle and Bobbin Club publication, we are still lacking some of the early ones. I was able to find some of them, but they had been bound together and there wasn't enough space left on the inner margin to make scanning possible. If anyone thinks she/he might have an old one floating about which might be lent for this project, I would be very grateful to hear from her/him. Here is the list of still-unlocated issues as of December 28, 2003: year vol no 1916 1 1 1917 2 1 1919 3 1 1919 3 2 1920 4 2 1921 5 2 1922 6 1 1927 11 2 1928 12 2 1931 15 ? 1932 16 1 When we find these, our collection will be complete. In the meantime, many of these are posted on the Professor's site. He has put them all onto the basic site (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/) and has singled out the lace articles for the lace part of his site (http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html). While I am scanning books (Palliser and Jackson are the latest), he is going through stacks of old magazines, and many of the fascinating articles written at the turn of the century are already posted on the lace site. I hope you will find them as fascinating as I do. Thanks to you all for your support in this project. It is hard work, to be sure, but absolutely addictive! Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
