That's where it was! I've just been hunting through old messages in the rec.crafts.needlework group, uk.rec.crafts, etc, (I'm amazed they're still going!) as I thought the discussion was on there rather than on Arachne - it must have been late 1990s as I'm sure it was in the early days. (We've had two computer 'deaths' since then, so although I've still got printouts of some of the ancient useful stuff from the newsgroups, I haven't got all of it) I can remember several people having Therese de Dillmont's book that they were trying to date and there being a reference number on the flysheet (?) which gave it away, someone on the list was a librarian (here in the UK, I think) and had means of translating the codes to dates. She dated a book I had at the time, but unfortunately I can't remember who it was. There was also something about the change of binding methods and obviously paper quality during the 1940s, due to wartime restrictions. The discussion was quite lengthy, though.
I was only saying to a work colleague the other day how it was the textile newsgroups that taught me that having internet access on the home computer was something that I would find useful and interesting, rather than it just being a work tool for my husband! How attitudes change over the course of 25 years or so! Jane Partridge ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: 18 January 2018 14:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lace] Vintage pattern books DMC Hi, Here are a couple comments from the Arachne archives and there are more. One at the bottom of page 2 of DMC search results. I seem to remember a long discussion of this with some more clues. Did Leonard take part in that discussion? Lots of years ago! - 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/
