Hi, I am slowly increasing my lace library, but it is becoming increasingly difficult. Specially now that our Canadian dollar is dropping like crazy again both against the USD and the Euro and GBP. I do wish they'd stop speculating with currencies....books have now increased in price about 30%, but my pension sure hasn't increased that much (and never mind the increase in the cost of food, since most of our food now seems to be imported). In the meantime, I want to make a list of books I would eventually like to get, hopefully before they go out of print and the price goes sky high because they are then considered 'rare'. So, since I am mostly interested in learning point ground and Flanders/Binche/Mechlin etc type laces, I am looking for book recommendations. I have a fair amount of Bucks Point books, and have got a couple of books on Flanders, but would like some recommendations on learning Binche, Mechlin, Point de Paris and Valenciennes, and I guess there are a few other point ground laces. I have Syllabus 1 and 3 of Binche (2 was out of print before I could buy it), but they are not really beginner books. It looks now like about the only ones available for Binche are the ones by either Vera Cockuyt or Annick Staes, are either of them any good? Or am I better off waiting till a new one comes out, or one of the others is reprinted? Also, is there only one book available for Mechlin? I do wish that some of the European organizations would start realizing that it is not that easy for North Americans to transfer funds to someone's bank account overseas. From what I can see, I can only do it via Hyperwallet, and their exchange rate and fees are quite high compared to using Paypal. And if you add the rate our dollar is down to now, it becomes unaffordable. Anyway, any recommendations are appreciated, even if they are now out of print, since I may be lucky and find it used for a reasonable price.
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