Dear Jo, In 2018, I read an unpublished manuscript held by an American museum which has details for reproducing all the laces in Whiting's sampler. At about the same time, I heard (a rumor?) that a lace guild in England - not American - had also deciphered all the Whiting laces and that was why the manuscript I read has not been published. Perhaps those who know more about this can give us American and English status reports? I have not heard that either manuscript has been made available. That could be misleading. I am not informed about all lace developments. When lace research - requiring many hours of volunteer work - has already been done but not published, it is important to not have additional people doing research that has already been done. We just do not have enough qualified lace experts to over-kill a topic of this complexity!
This is an example of a problem we can communicate about on Arachne and help come to a positive solution. Because of terrible AOL/Gmail interface problems, due to Arachne's limited programming, I am bcc-copying this to my usual private list of Gmail users, including those who volunteer at museums. If there are others who are Gmail users who would like to be on my list to receive bcc's, please write to me. Jeri Ames in Maine USALace and Embroidery Resource Center-----------------------------------------------------In a message dated 3/10/2019 3:25:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, yhgr....@xs4all.nl writes: Hello all, There are still many grounds in the Whiting index that don't yet havediagrams. The subtle variations of Valenciennes are causing me headaches. Ihope some experts can help me out. Details and images are available onhttps://github.com/d-bl/GroundForge/issues/129 You can answer here to invite other opinions, or answer me privately. Thanks in advance for your cooperation. Jo - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
