Hi all
Luton Museum brought out a new edition of the book fairly recently (
late 2012), with new high-quality digital photographs of the samples -
beautiful eye candy for any lacemaker, and an inspiration for the bucks
point makers.
I ordered mine directly from the Luton Museums' website - it's still
available there
https://www.lutonculture.com/shop/shop/books-and-media/the-lace-dealers-pattern-book/
hope all those who celebrate it have had a wonderful Christmas - I've
even managed to find time for a bit of lace during the break, so
Salamander no. 3 (in tropical lagoon camouflage) is ready to come of the
pillow.
Happy New Year 2015 - here's hoping we all have time for lace
Beth
in a very frosty Cheshire, NW England, but fortunately we've escaped the
snow.
Robin wrote:
---- Sue wrote:
The pattern I
bought and used was taken from the Lace Dealers handbook (now have I got that
quote right?) Does that mean it was a pattern in a book which people might
choose to
have made for a particular reason.
Hi, Sue
The Luton Museum's "Lace Dealer's Pattern Book" is a series of pages to which
snippets of lace are attached. The dealer would show these pieces, produced by the women
that worked for him, and the customer would pick the one she wanted and tell how many
yards (or pieces, if it's a motif). Then the dealer would order that amount from the
woman who specialized in that pattern.
The one at the Luton Museum got some fame when it was raising money to have the
book refurbished. They wanted to remount the lace pieces on archival board.
Arachne was one of the donors, by holding a raffle of prizes donated by
members. After the re-mounting, the museum had a book made of photographs of
the pages.
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