Hi,
At heart I am a lazy guy, but "all" the kind remarks that so many of you have sent me really demands a heart-felt thank you and appreciation, but my lazy nature demands that I thank you all in one email :( I am guessing it started 10 years ago and I have built on it from time to time over the years (I go "in and out" of bobbin collecting and writing from time to time!) I have probably almost 2000 annotated "6"X4", postcards" of bobbins, (remember them?) almost 50 articles, at least 10 donated digital collections, many individual gifts and a number of scavenged collections that I think should be recorded for history. They are nearly all in albums and I use them for study, but mostly for a sort of coffee table relaxation, because those bobbins are both beautiful and interesting. It has been most enjoyable, but now folks like the Springetts, Hopewell, and in a different category, Freeman, Yallop and Wright have made their enormous contribution, I am just a big fish in a little pond. However you Arachnids, continue to feed me in that bowl on your side board, so I keep going. My special bobbin friend Diana, will put a flea-in-my-ear for bringing her contribution to my work to the fore, she is so knowledgeable but very private; however she has been so willing to share all that she knows with me. Thank you Though I have published professionally from time to time in my life, I am one of those who believes that the internet should be "free" (I have lost that battle) I have always been happy to tell my donors that I will not make any personal financial gain from their generous digital donations, and this web based project brings that promise to an exciting end. I am honoured to be one of your number. who has only once wound a bobbin, then it was to see how the machine worked!! (Boo, very Hoo) I remain, a relapsed bobbin turner. Oh, I do turn the odd bobbin from time to time but the modern makers (and painters) are streets ahead of me. They are doing amazing work. When their work becomes vintage, the study of their skills and designs will be outstrip what I have done. Those who can do. "do", those who can't "do" write about it! 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/
