Yes, you're right. Sally Barry has self-published a series of four books called the "Luton Lace Treasury". Here's the link to Sally's website: http://www.gis.net/~scbarry/online_catalog.html <http://www.gis.net/~scbarry/online_catalog.html> where you can order the books directly from her. She lives in Massachusetts, and it's not clear if she will ship overseas.
Jill On 22 November 2012 at 15:02 Louise Bailey <bail...@slb.com> wrote: > Hi Karen, > > No patterns as far as I know, just high quality photos of the samples. > Someone, Sally Barry, I think, has drafted some patterns and published a few > over the years. > Stephanie Peters has some more info on the original on her website if you > google for it. > > The pattern book comprises about twenty pages of small samples of mainly Bucks > Point lace, with a few pieces of Bedfordshire, mounted on paper. The pages > were in a leather bound book that originally belonged to a dealer, possibly > John Spencer of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Two of the pages are of > black lace, the remainder are white. The book was used to show what lace was > available for private order. > > Louise > > From: Karen M. Zammit Manduca [mailto:kazama...@gmail.com] > Sent: 22 November 2012 13:48 > To: Louise Bailey > Cc: lace@arachne.com > Subject: Re: [lace] Luton Lace Dealer's Pattern Book > > A friend just let me know that the new edition is finally available from > Luton > Museums, I am told the DVD is a great addition. And in the postcard section > I found a set of Thomas Lester pattern designs, > > http://www.lutonculture.com/shop/shop/books-and-media/the-lace-dealers-patter > n-book/ > This is the first of a series of books showing collections from our museums. > > > > > > Are patterns to work the pieces of lace featured actually included? > Karen in Malta > > - > 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
