On Sep 18, 2004, at 19:53, Weronika Patena wrote:
My Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches just arrived! It's a great book!! I'm so happy
I just had to tell people about it.
One funny thing - mine has 207-222 repeated. Is this just my copy, or are
others like that too? It's the new revised 2002 edition.
Mine - a 1990 reprint of the 1980 book (un-revised) moves smoothly from 222 to 223; no repeats. And, if it misses any pages, I haven't yet found the holes.
Also - can I design patterns using these stitches without copyright problems?
I've always assumed that this book and others, similiar (G. Stott's "Decorative Fillings for Bucks Point Lace", U. Loehr's "Viele Gute Grunde" - all 3 parts -, the sections on braids in both P. Read/L.Kinkaid books on Milanese, the section on snowflakes in M. Giusiana's early Binche book) were *meant* to be used as a help/shortcut in designing your own patterns. Which is how I use them... Two of the authors of such compendia (P. Read for Milanese and G. Stott for Decorative Fillings) have actually commended me for such use; everyone likes to know that their labour hasn't been in vain :)
Where things might get a bit blurry is when you want to publish (or web-lish) a pattern using one of the entries in the compendia, and need to provide a diagram for it.
In the case of the Milanese braids, it's relatively easy; I do not provide a diagram, just the reference to the book in which it appears. I'm working on the assumption that the hardest part was "collecting" the braids (from different lace samples), dissecting and diagramming them. That's the book's authors' work, and I can't claim it. Unless, of course, I've changed the braid (or its construction) so much, that trying to reproduce it from the book would be too difficult :) I do provide a diagram then.
In the case of an unusual *stitch* it's different, because those are apt to be an integral part of the whole piece of lace where many stitches appear one next to another. So I do diagram the stitch. But I diagram it as it appears in the lace; the same as I do with the rest of them - the honeycomb, the net, the tallies, whatever...
There, I assume that he hardest part (and the indisputable labour of the author of the book) was showing how the pricking was constructed, relative to the grid. But I'm not showing the grid at all; it's been used in making the pricking, but is not visible in the lace itself. It might even been changed a bit as to the angles, during the adapting process, to make it fit in with the lace... So that part is mine, and I feel free to diagram it. I enlarge the pricking, and draw the diagram directly on it, to make sure that the same dots have ben preserved/removed/added in both, and that the angles are the same in both.
By the time I'm finished, it may, or may not, resemble the original... :) The filling used in "Fragrance" (the "bottle") is "Spiders" (p 32 in G. Stott's "Decorative Fillings for B.P. Lace), but I had a hard time identifying it in the book, when just looking at the lace - the angle of the grid is different, so my spiders are plump, instead of being elongated as hers.
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