Re: [lace] Needle lace resources? Beeton

2015-06-30 Thread Rita Bartholomew
For an online copy of Beeton's Book of Needlework check http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15147 Rita Bartholomew Massachusetts, USA On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Barbara Ballantyne bjballant...@ozemail.com.au wrote: The material in Beeton's book of Needlework published in 1870 appeared in a

Re: [lace] Needle lace resources? Beeton

2015-06-28 Thread Jeriames
1. Has anyone found the Beeton book on the Arizona site? Please share particulars. I just took a quick look alphabetically by book author, and did not find it. The original is not in my library, or it would have been scanned. The Lulu reprint I have is dated 2007. By law, I do not

Re: [lace] Needle lace resources? Beeton

2015-06-28 Thread Barbara Ballantyne
The material in Beeton's book of Needlework published in 1870 appeared in a series of books by Madame Goubaud issued between 1866 and 1871. I found this when I checked them in the British Library which holds 14 of Madame Goubaud's books. Mrs Beeton died in 1865. 'Samuel Beeton told us in