I am a daily lurker, but don't get to post very often.
Jeri recently posted a link to the cs.arizona archives. There are actually quite a few archives out there. To find books on most of these sites, in the search field use any of the words: lace, lacemaking, lace making, pillow lace or bobbin lace. You can also specify types of lace...i.e. Tonder. Antique Pattern Library... <http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm> http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm Their whole list is on this page. Not much lace, but a lot of other good things. APL also has a Yahoo group with new postings all the time... <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/antiquepatternlibrary/> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/antiquepatternlibrary/ The Cornell University Hearth archive... <http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/> http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/ Handweaving.net archive...it may point you to books on the Cornell or University of Arizona site, but there's also a bunch of other books too. I like this site because a lot of the books that are in pieces on the University of Arizona site can be found as one large file on this site. <http://www.handweaving.net/DAHome.aspx> http://www.handweaving.net/DAHome.aspx University of Pennsylvania...this is another one that may point to the above sites, but again, contains some that are within their own collection.... <http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html> http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html Project Gutenberg.A huge archive of books, though not very many lace books. I like their html versions of the books.they include the illustrations. To download, right click on the "Read this book online: HTML" link. In the little window that pops up, click on "Save link as", and save it to your computer. http://www.gutenberg.org/ Internet Archive.This site is the motherlode of downloadable books, videos, picture and audio files. The files are usually available in pdf, as well as kindle and other e-reader formats. Lots and lots of books on lace of all kinds. I just spent the last hour going through their new books.downloaded about 20, including these gems. https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000793137Images_201305 and https://archive.org/details/MAB.31962000795496Images Their main page is https://archive.org/ Plan on spending a few hours looking at these. They have an amazing amount of books. Enjoy! Peg - 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/
