Several years ago I bought a booklet from The Lacemakers Circle the proceeds of sales was for the restoration of The Lace Dealers Pattern Book actually I think I might have bought it when visiting the Luton Museum. Must try to get a copy of the new edition from them.
Sue M Harvey Norfolk U.K. Sent from my iPad > On 28 Dec 2014, at 09:20, Beth Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > - > 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/ - 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/
