Blue film is no longer being made. Vendors are offering a gray instead. The gray contact paper is expensive just as the blue was. But why not switch to clear matte which is very inexpensive and sold all over instead? Clear matte contact paper sells for $6.86 for an 18 inch by 9 foot roll at Amazon which will probably last most people for the rest of their lives. This is about the same price as a single small sheet of gray contact paper. Also since the contact paper is so cheap, you buy it by the roll, not the piece, and it stays nice and flat on the roll so there is less wastage. Now that it is impossible to obtain blue contact paper, I wish that teachers in the US would establish the practice of copying patterns for white lace onto blue paper or card. Does it make any sense to continue a practice that requires everyone in a class to have something that is no longer manufactured? I sincerely think that the reason that blue contact paper isn't being made anymore is due to the fact that copies on colored paper are so easy and inexpensive to make that there is no market for it outside the lace world. When I started making lace the teacher gave you a pricking on brown card that she had pricked through another pricking. Then photocopying was invented but only on white paper and we put blue film over the white photocopy. Now, it is just as easy to make a colored copy as a white one, but it is impossible to buy blue film. I think it is time to change with technology again as lacemakers have done throughout history. If I am going to search the world over for an exotic, expensive and hard to obtain item, I would rather it was thread or bobbins. Devon
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