I think it's fair to say that it's not the best BL book around, but it was the first of the *modern /lace revival* era and as such was invaluable. It'I was wondering what those of you that have Doreen's book think of it. Can anybody tell me what the copywrite date is and is it still in print?
s mostly Bucks, but has a bit of Honiton, Beds & Torchon, and finishing & mounting, etc. If you only had that one book to learn from it would be a STEEP learning curve! There are instructions for making a pillow, the bandage to learn the basic stitches and several traditional narrow Bucks patterns and then quite a lot more patterns with progressively less instructions.
It goes from basics to Floral Bucks. What was that other thread about learning torchon first? Not so with Doreen Wright.
As far as copyright goes, I don't know. If Doreen sold her copyright to the publisher (Bell & Hyman) then I think they would have copyright for however many years (50? 70? 100?) from the purchase (publication was 1971)
, but if copyright remained with the author then, under UK law it remains with her for her lifetime and then with her heirs for 70 years, so until August 2073.
Whichever way it is, the copyright will be on the artwork in the book ie the drawings, diagrams, photos, typesetting etc, not in the lace patterns themselves as these are nearly all traditional patterns, with names, which Doreen re-drew, (some show the graph paper grid, some don't) plus a couple of prickings from Aylesbury Museum. I guess she obtained the proper permission to publish.
On the subject of Miss Channer's mat; copyright is the right to exactly reproduce. I believe that if you own a worked mat (from a purchased pricking), and then re-drew it from scratch using a suitable grid you would own the copyright on the new artwork although you wouldn't (morally)own the design. Tracing wouldn't be allowed as that is mechanical copying.
Shakespeare's works are centuries out of copyright and anyone can re-write all his words in the correct sequence, but unless your copy of Hamlet, Macbeth or whatever is old you cannot just photocopy the book as the publisher will have copyright on the artwork/typesetting.
Brenda
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