Brian, Thank you for letting us know. Arachne has now outlived two professors. I'm glad my Alma Mater is keeping the site up.
Beth UofA, Class of '81, College of Agriculture, School of Renewable Natural Resources On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 5:28 PM <brid...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Just to let you know the head of Arizona Uni department responsible for > "webdocs" has died and the University is restructuring the site. The first > thing is a new URL. here it is > > https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/front_door.html > > > > For those who may not know about this service it is a site devoted to > "broadly" the weaving arts and that includes lace. The Uni and some of our > Arachne people have volunteered to scan a huge amount of historical > journals > (i.e., Needle and Bobbin club) so that we can easily access them. > > > > Authors can also place their studies on the site. I have about 50 Bobbin > articles there. I do this as, whereas Lace journals have published my > stuff > (happily) they would go mad if I sent them everything I wrote and I don't > blame them! > > > > There is just a huge amount of information on the site in a wide variety of > genres and sections. Researchers heaven, but also a lot of just plain > interesting and informative stuff. (Look at this oldie using the word > "stuff" its like saying "two times" (whatever happened to twice?) > > > > I sure there are others involved but I would like to give a nod of > appreciation to Tess Parish who volunteered for 5 years at Arizona's > (Perhaps more) on our behalf. Thanks Tess. So there you are > > > > Webdocs. Worth knowing about if you are new to the list. > > > > Ps I have sent a few recommendations to the development team, mostly about > the need for a really good search engine, as finding a document can be a > pain, or an author come to that. There are a couple of work arounds, but > if > they are re doing the site perhaps a decent search engine is the easiest. > (I am no IT person though) > > > > OK I still want pictures of antique decorated Downton and Honiton bobbins.. > Please./ I got about 20 pics from my last appeal.. I would love 100!! > (just > greedy me!) > > > > Thanks > > Brian > > > > > > > > > _____ > > I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > > . > SPAMfighter has removed 113 of my spam emails to date. > > Do you have a slow PC? < > http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen> > Try a free scan! > > - > 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/
