On the subject of Miss Channer's mat; copyright is the right to exactly reproduce. I believe that if you own a worked mat (from a purchased pricking), and then re-drew it from scratch using a suitable grid you would own the copyright on the new artwork although you wouldn't (morally)own the design. Tracing wouldn't be allowed as that is mechanical copying.<<<
Robin replied:
Depends how you make the pattern for the hooked rug!I believe there's more to it than that. If I make a hooked rug from someone's watercolor painting, I can be infringing the painter's copyright by selling copies of my rug pattern. It's my understanding that changing media doesn't automatically bypass copyright--it has to be changed "enough" to be an adaptation.
If you do it visually/manually by freehand drawing over graph paper the chances are your design will end up a bit different anyway, though morally it's title should be "after xxxxxx by yyyyyyyy". But if you have the skills to make a pattern in this way you probably wouldn't want to make an exact copy anyway!
However, scanning the watercolour and using a computer program to convert the image into a pattern of squares (suitable for hooked rugs / cross stitch / Fair Isle knitting etc) is a very different thing and would be contravening copyright.
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