Brenda writes: > I have a book called "Three-dimensional Crochet" by Sachiko Yamamoto > written in Japanese and English, pub 2002 by the author. Floral > motifs, a bit like Irish crochet but worked in bright colours using > Cotton Perle for dress, parasol, bag and household decoration.
This got me delving into my bookshelf again - I have a wonderful Japanese tatting book, ISBN4-529-02533-0, just called Tatting Lace - it has a shawn draped around a dressmakers dummy on the cover. It is full of useful patterns, including a couple of collars, a couple of shawls, edges, doilies, necklaces with beads, even a set of curtains! Again, like Anneke's book, all in Japanese, but the diagrams are so clear you don't need translation. Inside the back cover are pictures of the covers of 5 books all on lace - one "Irish crochet lace", another "Knitted lace", another "Battenberg lace" and two "Tatting lace" (including the book I have). I remember about 10 years ago going to a lot of trouble to write to the publishers in Japan and buy about 25 copies of the tatting book for friends in Sydney - they were all snaffled up immediately. Can't even remember the name of the publisher now. Someone in our group had a catalog of all their craft books. I don't really wish I could get my hands on the catalog again - I couldn't afford to buy all the books I would want! Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
