ome further notes on Madame Goubaud's writings on point lace. These patterns were included, without any acknowledgement to Madame Goubaud, in /Beeton's Book of Needlework /along with patterns for tatting, crochet, knitting, netting, embroidery, Guipure d'art, berlin work, pillow lace and lace stitches.
/Beeton's Book of Needlework /was published in 1870 by Ward Lock and Tyler, Great Britain which was after Madame Goubaud's crochet books were published in 1868 and 1869. I compared the copies of Madame Goubaud's patterns with those in /Beeton's Book of Needlework / in the British library. The Goubaud's and Beeton's were friends and business associates. Madame Goubaud and her husband produced the prestigious French fashion magazine/Le Moniteur de la Mode/ in Paris. Samuel Beeton indicated in the preface to/Beeton's book of needlework /that the best attainable workers had carried out his late wife's wish to have a needlework book along the same lines as her classic one on household management (Isabella had died five years before). He also wrote that point lace had recently become popular and the patterns would help ladies to reproduce antique laces. This is quoted from p 18 of my book/Mademoiselle Riego and Irish crochet lace/ 2007 Barbara Ballantyne in sunny Sydney On 12/06/2017 4:15 AM, jeria...@aol.com wrote: > Thank you, Jenny. Tess did a tremendous amount of work. Books may be > easier to scan today than when she took on this project for us, making so > many out-of-copyright books available - free - to anyone with a computer. > Her > set-up meant standing for hours and hours and lifting the books > continuously. If you have seen heavy original books like the Ricci set, you > know it > had to be back-breaking work that required skill so fragile pages and > bindings would not be damaged. > > A bit of information about this specific publication to which Jenny has > referred, "Battenberg and Point Lace Book": It was re-published by Lacis in > San Francisco in 1987, and may still be available. > > Two copies are kept in my library. The version Tess scanned is under > Priscilla, and the Lacis version is under the author's name: Nellie Clarke > Brown. > > A teaching moment: There are several ways to search for what has been > said about this book: Battenberg, Nellie Clarke Brown, Lacis, Point Lace, > Priscilla, and by the book's title. People who are interested in braids may > find the contents useful, because tapes are similar to braids. And, of > course, these laces are made by a threaded needle and are considered to be > embroidery. > > Jeri Ames in Maine USA > Lace and Embroidery Resource Center > -------------------------------------------------------- > > In a message dated 6/11/2017 2:24:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > je...@brandis.com.au writes: > > It was only when I was comparing the 2 sites work that I really > appreciated > just how much work Tess Parish had done removing all the background colour > from the scans, thus making it much more readable. > > To see what I mean, compare these 2 copies of the same scan > > https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/archive_003.pdf > http://archive.org/stream/priscillabattenb00brow#page/n5/mode/2up > > Jenny Brandis > > - > 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/