Weldon's started publishing their Practical Needlework magazines in 1886, producing one a month on various crafts, and issuing each year's in sequentially numbered volumes. Vol 10 was published in 1895. So far, so logical. Unfortunately, the separate monthly instalments were numbered by topic, so Point Lace Second Series (say) could have been published any time after the first, making it very difficult to date the separate monthly issues. In July 1915, when you would have thought the best minds were occupied elsewhere, they started indicating the months on the cover, as 7/15. They kept old numbers in print, good for us, but not for dating! All this from "A History of Hand Knitting" by Richard Rutt, who has sorted out when the knitting magazines were published.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:03:35 -0400 > From: "Jane Viking Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [lace] Weldon's reprints > > Hi All, At the IOLI Convention last year I got > Volume 10 > of the Weldon's Practical Needlework series that > Piecework magazine is > reprinting. This one finally has Point Lace in it > (grandmother to > Battenberg/Tape Lace). However, there is > no date. They give the general dates but Weldon's > printed > booklets on many different needlework techniques > throughout > the year. I think it's probably from around 1898. > Does anyone > have any idea about when Weldon's published the > compendiums? Sometimes ads > in old magazines are for the new volume available. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
