Re: [lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-22 Thread Sue Harvey
I don't have DMC books but I do have two books that have been invaluable they are:1981 edition of Readers Digest Complete Guide to Needlework and a 1976 edition of Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK Sent from my iPad - To unsubscribe send email to

RE: [lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-22 Thread David C Collyer
Dear Friends, > I wonder how many of us have copies of the classic DMC *Encyclopedia > of Needle work*? and who has the oldest? Mine is 1928 David Downunder in Ballarat, AUS I also have 2 copies. One is marked 412, April of 1912. The other is older. The beginning is laid out the same except

Re: [lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-21 Thread f...@cobweb.net
Hi, I wonder how many of us have copies of the classic DMC *Encyclopedia of Needle work*? and who has the oldest? I also have 2 copies. One is marked 412, April of 1912. The other is older. The beginning is laid out the same except that the page in the newer book which has the 412 on

Re: [lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-21 Thread Karen ZM
> > I wonder how many of us have copies of the classic DMC *Encyclopedia of > Needle work*? I had bought a copy of that book for sentimental reasons. My mother was given one that belonged to my father’s aunts and, as a little child, I used to love poring over it. Hence, it was one of the first

[lace] re vintage pattern books

2018-01-21 Thread Gilian Dye
Thank you to everyone who has responded to my query, either directly or via Arachne, about dating pattern and instruction books. I should perhaps apologise for not going first to the Arachne archives, but if I had done that I would probably not have raised a topic which is obviously of interest to

[lace] Re: Vintage pattern books DMC

2018-01-18 Thread Jane Partridge
That's where it was! I've just been hunting through old messages in the rec.crafts.needlework group, uk.rec.crafts, etc, (I'm amazed they're still going!) as I thought the discussion was on there rather than on Arachne - it must have been late 1990s as I'm sure it was in the early days. (We've had