Not many people realize that the patterns in Beeton's Book of Needlework are
the same as in Madame Goubaud's books published about the same time.
People often quote Mrs. Beeton's tatting methods but Isabella had been dead
for several years by the time Beeton's Book of Needlework came out.
"Madame Goubaud may have been the editor rather than the author of the wide
range of needlework books reprinted in the Beeton's book. Mme Goubaud
already had a large workload as she and her husband produced the prestigious
French fashion magazine Le Moniteur de la Mode in Paris. The Beetons and
Goubauds were friends and business associates.
Samuel Beeton told us in the preface to Beeton's Book of Needlework that
the 'best attainable workers' had carried out his late wife's wish to have a
needlework book along the same lines as her classic one on household
management (Isabella had died five years before). He also wrote that point
lace had recently become popular and the patterns in the book would help
ladies to reproduce antique laces."
I quote from my book Mlle Riego and Irish crochet lace which, along with
Early History of Irish crochet lace, has a deal of general needlework and
social history as well as of crochet lace.
Barbara Ballantyne in Sydney Australia
www.crochethistory.com
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:35 AM
Subject: [lace] misc.
Hello All! Thank you for posting the Beeton's link. Ahh--but did you
notice at the bottom of the article--"Paternoster Row"?? Any relation??
As to The Lacemaker in Cortland, OH--yes the shop is very much alive &
well. Tracy has been "out of the office" teaching & vending at various
lace days & SCA events across the US but will re-open the store front on
Aug 11th. Always check her website as she posts her schedule there. BTW,
several events are planned for this fall at the shop including a
needlelace work group, "labyrinth" class, Death Lace Race & Project
Hedgehog" (apologies to Heidi Klum) & a kumihimo workshop is on the radar
for spring. She has expanded her shop so there is a huge classroom where
lacey folks can gather. Sincerely, Susan in Erie, PA where it's only 1.5
hours to laceland (Cortland).
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