Dear Peg, Many lace books are also available at reasonable prices in online bookshops - for example www.abebooks.com
Best Wishes Barbara -----Original Message----- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Witchy Woman Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2011 8:24 AM To: lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Publishing lace books The Arachne archive has been an amazing treasure trove of lacemaking information for me. I was so glad to see that the list is still active. I subscribed last week and already picked up a few good tips. I live in Fairview Park, Ohio...a suburb of Cleveland...and have been making lace since the mid-90's. The first time I saw bobbin lace was at a Crafts from Around the World fair at the May Company in Cleveland in the mid-70's. A woman named Deb Hietarinta was demonstrating it. Things didn't work out at the time to learn (she moved out of state), but almost 20 years later I was finally able to take lessons. While the kids were growing up lacemaking fell by the wayside, but 3 years ago I took it up again. It's a testament to my teacher, Lynn Swedenborg, that I remembered so much. One of my biggest frustrations in lacemaking is the availability of reasonably priced books...as in under or around $20. Lace books are printed in short runs and sell out quickly. When they show up on sites like Alibris, Half.com or Amazon, they're usually at least 2 to 3 times the cover price. Some are just plain outrageous...i.e. today, Amazon.com has a copy of Rosemary Shepherd's INTRODUCTION TO BOBBIN LACE MAKING for $372.33...no, that's not a typo. I borrow a lot of out of print books from the IOLI Library, but I feel funny copying patterns out of them. I don't like to infringe on copyrights, but I also don't have a lot of money to spend on overpriced second hand books. And I would like to see the authors get the money for the books, not the second hand owners. I wish more of the authors of lace books would consider, once the first run of the book goes out of print, selling them in either a .pdf format or through one of the print-on-demand sites like Lulu.com. BTW, Lulu currently has 7 bobbin lace titles available and 19 lacemaking titles. I look forward to reading the digest every day. Can't wait to read more. Thanks! Peg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G: What is it you want? D: Freedom... to want nothing... to expect nothing... to depend on nothing. from THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
