You will know that I am passionate about lace bobbins. I started with the East Midland genre, then moved on to East Devon bobbins and for some years i have been urged to turn my mind to the bobbins of the âEuropeanâ continent.
Over the years some people have kindly sent me some bobbins either in reality or in pictures. I have done nothing with them and i am feeling quite guilty about that (I can give you a list of excuses why I have done nothing!... cant we all?) I decided that one way of meeting what might be a start is a web page devoted to the bobbins of other countries. Over the years i have collected various information and pictures from various publications to help me identify the countries from which these bobbins came. I think it is quite a resource... so what is my problem? For a number of countries I have say just one picture that i can legitimately publish but a lot of drawings/pictures that i have collected for my personal use in the process of Continental bobbin identification. Some countries i have a number of legitimate pictures to publish, but not examples of all the bobbins from that country. To be honest, i have no idea where i got the illustrations etc from, but i am guessing that most have come from very old a possibly out of print books or catalogues. (for the most part.) What should i do? I do not think i would ever be sued for what i may publish. I would avoid the sources in the few books in current publication that i know of. Deep down i know the answer, but do not want to acknowledge it for the sake of academia (I hate to tell you but i did my Masters in Ethics.... oh I should not have told you that!) IF.... I can get enough people on side that have a reasonable collection of Continental bobbins and who are reasonably knowledgeable about them, I was wondering if we could have a collaborative web page? I would put up a web page of all that i have got (including dubious sourced stuff!) you guys would look at it, see if you have got a real picture you could take and send me of a bobbin that is illustrated from a book source etc, I would then replace the book illustration with your real picture . There seems to be nothing out there that enables bobbin collectors to ID their continental bobbins. I have a private resource that goes a long way to rectifying that (not all the way for sure) Is there a reasonable way i can get that out there for collectors and interested people to use? I need to say that this would be a âpictureâonly resource, there is no way I could write articles about them... I would just be out of my depth completely. Other than for a few rude word i only speak English! What do you think? Maybe there is not need for it? Maybe i should just publish my legit stuff (that would leave a lot of blanks) Over to you. Brian - 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/
