Thank you Tamara, that is a super scan
I *wish* <g>... My Christmas '02 "haracz" (forced tribute) from my men-folk (DH and DS) was an MFC (multi-function-center). It's supposed to print, copy, scan and fax. But *not* in conjunction with OSX-driven Mac... :)
It prints from the puter (well enough, given that it's only an ink-jet, not a laser). It does a *superb* job of copying (full size, reduced, enlarged... all come out without any distortion; true miracle <g>). It will fax (I know, because I had to register the machine via fax. Otherwise, why should I pay for a phone call and *not* get the chance to bend someone's ear??? <g>)
But it will *not* scan; Babel (confusion of tongues/languages) continues between PCs and Macs... <g> New "drivers" have been promised (by the manufacturer of the MFC), downloaded and tested -- they didn't do squat. That's one of the reasons (inadequate web-Composer and inadequate web-Mistress being the other two <g>) why y'all are seeing only the *pictures* of my designs, and not the *patterns*... Everything that appears on my sorry website has to be photographed first, then "laundered" via the "i-Photo", then uploaded; the precision needed for *prickings* is not available, because the scanner part doesn't function (Avital and I are working on *that*. One day... <g>)
At this point, however, any-/every-thing you see on my website is a *photo*, not a scan
of the picture from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Ah... Thanks :) I knew the Rijksmuseum was "somewhere important" in the Netherlands, but, as to the exact location, I had no clue... Holland/the Netherlands (what's the difference?) is like the US -- the capital is not the biggest city, and the biggest city is not the capital... Enough to get me confused for ever-and-ever...
It is interesting to note that even as early as 1629 when the Batavia was wrecked off western Australia, styles of bobbins varied.
It *is* interesting, isn't it? But not *surprising*, not really...
By then, BL was "going strong" all over the world (read: all over Western Europe <g>) for close to a 100 years; the *precise details* of patterns and tools would have been closely guarded secrets, but there've always been the "clever ones" who could reproduce, more-or-less accurately, everything they'd seen/heard *once*... (think of the child-Mozart's first visit to Vienna, when, on a single hearing, he wrote down the entire concert he'd attented <g>). The "clever ones" would then go home and, not satisfied with reproducing faithfully, they'd "improve" on what they'd seen... And/or plug the holes in memory with alternatives which *seemed* right...
Strange as it may seem to us (no planes, no trains, no cars, no decent roads, and bandits at every "likely" spot in such roads as offered <g>) people travelled a lot, even earlier than 16th century. "Tricks" (such as clock-driven "toys", silkmaking, lacemaking, etc) would have been something to watch for, because there was money to be made from them... I don't think it's surprising that, over a century or so, the craft of lacemaking spread like wildfire all over Europe. Nor do I think it peculiar that *slightly different* tools were developed in different "pockets" of it...
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