I recently lent my copy of this wonderful little
book to Tess to scan for
the CD's. I don't know if it made the last scan or
not.
Tess scanned it before she left for the holidays.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
Click on 'This month'
No translation, but most
This must be the book I have, except I have no translation. The
stitch by number method is difficult to follow, but I plan to pick a
pattern, and see if I can puzzle it out.
A little bonus in my copy of the book is an advertisement for the
Princess Lace Pillow from April 1905 Modern Priscilla.
We had our Christmas early, and my daughter gave me a book she found
in a second hand shop. It is a 1974 reprint of a bobbin lace book,
all in French. In the back of the book are cards with prickings,
complete and not ever used.
The Title page says:
Bibliotheque DMC
Les Dentelles aux Fuseaux
Lenore wrote:
Wow! Can anyone tell me more about this little book? Any suggestions
as to where I could find the English translation?
Since Les dentelles aux fuseaux just means Bobbin Lace, I suppose
there could be two books with the same title, but in the foreword to
the translation of
Greetings,
I have a copy of the 1974 reprint of Les Dentelles aux
Fuseaux. It's not the Paulis book. It was originally
written by Theresa de Dillmont who lived from 1846 to
1890. It was published by the DMC company, and
probably reprinted more than once. The notes I've
written in my book say