I guess I need to clear things up a tiny bit. There are two websites:
The original one is <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/>
This is the one we send scans to, where John Cropper (Ralph
Griswold's able successor) does all the work of checking the scans,
assembling them into the right format, turning them into PDFs, and
posting them on the web site. Without him, there would be no
website. He is now in the long-awaited process of redoing the whole
site to make it better, a long arduous job which will probably be
finished by about Christmas.
Then there is <http://www.handweaving.net/Store.aspx> This is Kris
Bruland's site, and he is the one where you have to register. He has
taken over the sales of the CDs (blessings on his name!), and in
preparing them he has listed the contents of each CD, which is a
great help to us all. He has nothing to do with the scanning and
preparing of the material that ends up on the CDs: he gets it all
from John. I am most grateful to Kris, not only because he has
relieved me of the burden of selling and mailing CDs, but because he
is handling this all in a very professional way, being able to take
credit cards and such, and giving discounts for quantity purchases.
So think of it this way:
1) <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/> is like a public
library. This is where the material is catalogued and stored and
where you can stroll through the stacks and leaf through the books.
2)<http://www.handweaving.net/Store.aspx> is like a bookstore. Here
you can find out what each CD contains and buy the one(s) you like.
The one thing I do urge you to do is to poke around and see what is
on the Professor's site. Don't just stick to lace: there's tons of
other stuff, all textile related, and quite fascinating. For those
who aren't quite sure what this is all about, this vast collection is
made up of out-of-copyright books and such, which means that the
publication date has to be before 1923. For lacemakers, this was the
golden age of professional lacemaking and we are lucky that these
books are still available in public libraries or private collections.
Don't worry about the thieves helping themselves to our work. I
asked Ralph about this once, and he said that this happens all the
time. It's too bad that people don't know that they can get all
these books on line for free, and I don't know how we can spread that
word. And of course the bad thieves will get their reward in Heaven--
or perhaps the Other Place!
Sorry to make this so long, but I hope it straightens out the confusion.
Tess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in Maine, USA, where the leaves are still
beautiful though dropping fast.
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