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et>, [email protected] writes
Has anyone tried contacting an author in order to use patterns to
teach from? How difficult is it? What success did you have?
I have always used my own patterns for teaching. However, some twenty
years ago, I was making lace bookmarks to sell at a fair to raise money
for our local hospice, and contacted Christine Springett to ask
permission to use her snake pattern for this purpose (I wonder how many
teachers/demonstrators have asked her before using said pattern on
beginner pillows?) - she wrote me a lovely letter in reply, giving
permission.
On the other side of the coin, some years ago I was contacted by an
author who is a well known lace teacher, saying that she had been using
one of my patterns, published in 'Lace' some years before, for teaching
purposes, and had used that pattern as the basis of a chapter of her
book which she was just about to start selling (ie it was already
printed by then). This put me in a difficult situation because had I
refused permission for its use, it would have cost her a considerable
amount. It was the first feedback I had had that anyone had used the
pattern in any way, and to some extent flattering, but not all designers
see things that way. However, her methods of working my technique are
not the simplest, and I have since had published, in 'Lace' and the
'Canadian Lacemaker Gazette', my way of working overlapping loopy gimp
rings.
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Jane Partridge
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