The material in Beeton's book of Needlework published in 1870 appeared in a series of books by Madame Goubaud issued between 1866 and 1871. I found this when I checked them in the British Library which holds 14 of Madame Goubaud's books. Mrs Beeton died in 1865.
'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 wishes to have a needlework book along the same lines as her classic one on household management . He also wrote that point lace had recently become popular and the patterns in the book would help ladies to reproduce antique laces. Madame Goubaud may have been the editor rather than the author of the wide range of needlework reprinted in the Beeton's book. She 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.' These two paragraphs are quoted from my book /Mademoiselle Riego and Irish crochet lace/, p. 18. Madame Goubaud's point lace book can be downloaded from www.archive.org. It came up close to the top of the list when I typed Madame Goubaud point lace into google. Barbara Ballantyne in sunny Sydney, Australia On 29/06/2015 3:58 AM, jeria...@aol.com wrote: > 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/
