Just to let you know the head of Arizona Uni department responsible for "webdocs" has died and the University is restructuring the site. The first thing is a new URL. here it is
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/front_door.html For those who may not know about this service it is a site devoted to "broadly" the weaving arts and that includes lace. The Uni and some of our Arachne people have volunteered to scan a huge amount of historical journals (i.e., Needle and Bobbin club) so that we can easily access them. Authors can also place their studies on the site. I have about 50 Bobbin articles there. I do this as, whereas Lace journals have published my stuff (happily) they would go mad if I sent them everything I wrote and I don't blame them! There is just a huge amount of information on the site in a wide variety of genres and sections. Researchers heaven, but also a lot of just plain interesting and informative stuff. (Look at this oldie using the word "stuff" its like saying "two times" (whatever happened to twice?) I sure there are others involved but I would like to give a nod of appreciation to Tess Parish who volunteered for 5 years at Arizona's (Perhaps more) on our behalf. Thanks Tess. So there you are Webdocs. Worth knowing about if you are new to the list. Ps I have sent a few recommendations to the development team, mostly about the need for a really good search engine, as finding a document can be a pain, or an author come to that. There are a couple of work arounds, but if they are re doing the site perhaps a decent search engine is the easiest. (I am no IT person though) OK I still want pictures of antique decorated Downton and Honiton bobbins.. Please./ I got about 20 pics from my last appeal.. I would love 100!! (just greedy me!) Thanks Brian _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . SPAMfighter has removed 113 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC? <http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen> Try a free scan! - 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/
