I have been enjoying learning about Veronika's work/thesis. Very cool!!! I just wanted to point out that there are some math ties to tatting too. A few years back, Patty Dowden introduced the tatting world to 'Hyperbolic Tatting' and taught it at the Minnesota IOLI Convention (so sorry I couldn't go to be in that class!).  Follow the following link to explore Patty Dowden's work on Hyperbolic Tatting:http://api.ning.com/files/7K-JVVxwVhh4LGvReFO018O*M*lVkVxiCkKDXgkvZES 9uImRI9DR6d5*5E-Te54YQgM07nM*LFJxlaKHH-5w6iU-Gm28GnaB/HyperbolicTatting.pdf  Just recently I was in the Denver Art Museum Textile Gallery and they had some wonderful displays up that introduced fiber/textiles as 'Art'. In the tatting display was a couple of small tatted bits of hyperbolic tatting. I faintly recall that Patty gave a workshop there...but could be completely wrong about that. I have a picture of the display and hyperbolic tatting on my blog: www.TheShuttle.com/shuttlesmithblog I have been researching and playing around with the concept of Tesselation in my tatting design work. My last book, "MORE Fun with Split Ring Tatting", introduces that theme and features unique tatted designs with Tesselation in mind. However, "Tesselation" refers to designs made of identical shapes but the shapes must fit together without any gaps. I have a few of these designs in my book. BUT....Lace is about the negative space (holes) enhancing the positive parts (the thread) in the design. Thus I came up with a new term: LACE TESSELATION. Many of my designs fit into that category. You can see some of the designs on the front covers of the book at this address:  www.TheShuttleSmith.com/books-for-sale/  There are more in the book. Karen BovardThe ShuttleSmithOmaha, NEwebsite & blog: www.TheShuttleSmith.comÂ
On Friday, February 6, 2015 9:16 AM, Veronika Irvine <v...@uvic.ca> wrote: Thanks for the reference Jeri. I will definitely try to get my hands on a copy of Whiting's book. I have been trying to collect as many references as possible on lace grounds and systematic descriptions of lace. The main resources I am using right now are:   Viele Gute Grunde by Ulrike Lohr   Grunde mit System by Uta Ulrich   Moderne Grunde by Deutscher Kloppelverband e.V.   The Book of Bobbin Lace Stitches by Cook and Stott Many thanks to Lorelei and the IOLI newsgroup for helping me compile this list and to Bev Walker and the Victoria Lace Guild for helping me get access to books. As an aside, I have recently discovered the Google Translate "image to text" option which is helping me read some of the German text. You can take a photograph of the text and Google Translate will scan the image for words so I don't have have to type them. Now all we need is to get Google to recognize lace specific terms... Kind regards, Veronika Irvine http://web.uvic.ca/~vmi/ - 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/