Brian One thing you could do, that wouldn't cost any money, would be to start a pinboard on pinterest. Since pinterest now includes the source website for every photo, you could take photos off the internet. And you would be surprised how many photos of bobbins there are. Pinterest does allow you to specify whether only you, or anybody, can post photos to your pinboard. Of course, if you specify that anybody can put a pin there, it means only people who already have pinterest accounts. Pinterest allows you to pin photos from anywhere on the internet, or from your own computer.
I think the drawings you have made yourself are yours to post, even if you were looking at somebody else's photo when you made them. Posting photos given by somebody else, when you don't remember the donor, well, that is another issue. If you have a list of all your donors, but don't know which donor goes with which photo, you could just post the list and explain your problem, inviting anyone who recognizes a photo to contact you. Presumably if they sent you a photo they expected you to use it in a lecture or article. Otherwise, why send it? I do understand the problem you are trying to solve. I have started a set of my own pinboards, collecting photos of laces by categories. The reason is that I am always wanting good examples of antique laces when I am trying to explain why I identify a particular lace as this or that. Photos I can use from my own website are limited in their scope. laceioli and needlelacetalk provide more, but still not enough. Too many gaps in the historical record, and some forms nobody is making. So my pinterest boards fill in the gaps. They are illustrations I can use by creating links. If you were to do this by creating a webpage you could just post links to pre-existing online photos, instead of posting the photos. Of course that still leaves the problem of photos you have without certainty about who the photographer was. I already have a pinboard for bobbins and equipment, but it is haphazard, not systematic, and I didn't bother to identify the geographic location of every one. If you were to do it we could reasonably expect systematic thoroughness. http://www.pinterest.com/lynxlacelady/bobbin-lace-tools/ Lorelei - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
