Dear Marianne, Please bear in mind I am not recommending a book dealer in North America, because the cost of shipping and money conversion is usually added to book prices twice that way. It adds up again if something is shipped from the U.S. to Canada (where you are). Postage prices everywhere have escalated since 9/11, because packages receive extra scrutiny at airports. When you have your book list from Arachne's lacemakers, may I suggest you go to the lace site in Germany of _www.barbara-fay.de_ (http://www.barbara-fay.de) to see if they offer the books? They support guild efforts throughout Europe by selling books at large lace events. They will not have some privately-published and guild-published books, but do have many others. Barbara is no longer with us. Her husband and daughter (Dagmar) run the company and speak perfect English. You can phone for the cost of using your car to drive to a book store. Remember the time difference and check their schedule to see if they are at some European lace event as a vendor. What I do is send a memo of the books I want, and call the next day to give credit info. Remember the time difference and check their vending schedule. I aim for between 10 and 11 a.m. German time. You do not need to jump through banking hoops this way. Yes, they say you can give credit info with your order, but I never do this - anywhere. Some of us have been burned by using other methods of payment. They ship air mail at reasonable prices, and they really know the books they sell. When you look at their catalog, sometimes 2 different language editions have been published of some books. Be sure you indicate you want English whenever it is available. Their business has published books of instruction by European teachers in multiple languages, which is much appreciated. The lace guilds in many European countries still do not understand that we want to learn about them as well as their laces, and there are a lot of people whose first or second language is English. They'd sell more if they tried to at least use English captions with illustrations. By the 3rd generation after immigrating to Australia, Canada, the U.S., etc., descendants may not choose to learn their grandparents' language. They may, however, want to learn more about precious things (like lace) made in the land of their ancestors. Do you belong to Canadian Lacemaker Gazette? I recommend, because they share a list of all Canadian lace groups with their members. Some of the groups may have a library from which members can borrow. Another advantage is that you can "preview" books before ordering for yourself. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center -------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 7/17/2015 12:48:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
........ I want to make a list of books I would eventually like to get .... Since I am mostly interested in learning point ground and Flanders/Binche/Mechlin etc type laces, I am looking for book recommendations. I have a fair amount of Bucks Point books, and have got a couple of books on Flanders, but would like some recommendations on learning Binche, Mechlin, Point de Paris and Valenciennes, and I guess there are a few other point ground laces. I have Syllabus 1 and 3 of Binche (2 was out of print before I could buy it), but they are not really beginner books. It looks now like about the only ones available for Binche are the ones by either Vera Cockuyt or Annick Staes, are either of them any good? Or am I better off waiting till a new one comes out, or one of the others is reprinted? Also, is there only one book available for Mechlin? I do wish that some of the European organizations would start realizing that it is not that easy for North Americans to transfer funds to someone's bank account overseas. From what I can see, I can only do it via Hyperwallet, and their exchange rate and fees are quite high compared to using Paypal. And if you add the rate our dollar is down to now, it becomes unaffordable. *Marianne* Marianne Gallant - 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/
