Dear Arachnes, I've just finished a marathon effort to catalogue my bobbins, I realised that I probably had more than I thought, and I was right. 20 years of lacemaking will do that to a collection (and I'm not going to admit how many!). I've had a lot of success identifying makers and painters particularly for recent ones, but there are a few that have me stumped. I've put a few pictures in an album on Flickr. Most are UK makers, bought at local lace days and fairs since the mid 90s at Fenland, Cambridge, Peterborough, and Stevenage. But there are a couple of US ones, probably a bobbin exchange. I have a pair that are I think painted by April Lind but I don't know the bobbin maker. If you can offer any identifications it would be great. I can post some of the few I have idenified that aren't on Jenny Brandis' list.
I am sure someone will ask how I did the cataloguing. I am using an inventory app for the Ipad called Mystuff2, which is very flexible and set up categories such as maker, material painter, spangle, price ..., and upload photos. You can take a photo with the Ipad camera or import them from the photo store or other locations. I used a digital camera, because I'm not that good at positioning the Ipad. I've also done my lace books, it has an option to link to the Amazon databases and will download all the relevant information from reading the barcode. There is a demo version available to try out before you buy, I've been very pleased with it so far. Louise In springlike Cambridge - 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/
