Let us share the details of Voysey's books so members of Arachne can watch for them at used book sales, like the current list offered by The Lace Guild. Or, if you would like to order her books from a library. 1. 1984 - New Designs in Honiton Lace by Pat Perryman and Cynthia Voysey, Batsford, 119-pg. Hardback, 0-7134-3742-1 2. 1987 - Bobbin Lace in Photographs by Cynthia Voysey, Batsford, 127-pg. Artbook-size hardback, 0-7134-5331-1 3. 1987 - Needlelace in Photographs by Cynthia Voysey, Batsford, 127-pg. Artbook-size hardback, 0-7134-5560-8 4. 1991 - Honiton Lace - a Practical Guide, by Cynthia Voysey, Bishopsgate Press, 93-pg. Softcover, 1-85219-057-4 It is of interest to note that Voysey had an interest in photography since childhood (long before she took up lacemaking) and her 2 books of lace photos are lovely. The laces are presented as works of art. Published before today's digital photography, the images are very clear for the lace person who is interested in identifying lace details from the 17th through 20th centuries. She chose to photograph privately-owned laces and laces in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter - not the laces found in museums of London, Paris, New York, etc. In each of these two books, she quoted (opposite from the Contents page) from George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah", as follows: Bobbin Lace: "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." Needlelace: "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." To paraphrase a paragraph in Needlelace: "The more you look, the more you see. The more you know, the more you realize how little you know." That pretty much sums it up for those of us trying to identify and define all the varieties of lace in our world, past and present. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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