I've just noticed that on the bottom of my pricking of Miss Channer's mat is printed "Pricking adapted by Patricia Bury from an earlier copy in her collection"
There certainly are equally/more challenging Buck Point patterns. Just one is in "Fine Buckinghamshire Point Lace Patterns Belonging to the Misses Sivewright and Pope", which has been mentioned. In it there's a pricking for "part of a Bishop's cope". It's mentioned in Thomas Wright's "Romance of the Lace Pillow" with a photo of part of it on page 64. There's a photo of the finished item on: http:://www.cyberlink.co.uk/pblc/cope.htm The person who jokingly challenged Malcom Down to make it was me after he'd completed Miss Channer's Mat, and he would gleefully show me how far he'd got at each meeting of PBLC. If you have the Sivewright and Pope book, you'll see just how large it is - half the pricking spreads across two A3 pages and those two have to be mirrored for the other half. Jean Nathan in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
